Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 2 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 3 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 4 | So even if they were n't in and you to knock on the door , the burglar alarm would stop you ? |
| 5 | Then , as she climbed in and he slid into the driver 's seat beside her , he turned to look at her . |
| 6 | Blackness was swirling in and she fought against the need to clutch hold of something . |
| 7 | In the end it was Rachel who was forced to give in and she swam to the side of the pool , climbed up the steps , and sat on the side watching as David completed several more laps . |
| 8 | Rogers put his nose down and they escaped into the chaos . |
| 9 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 10 | I motioned to her to sit down and we started on the mail . |
| 11 | Now , as the coachman handed her down and she swept into the kitchen in her fur-lined velvet cloak , the difference in her life since her marriage was brought home to her as never before . |
| 12 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 13 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 14 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 15 | Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair . |
| 16 | My head goes down and I focus on the problem until I figure out how it can be solved , ’ said the man whose solutions make tomorrow 's game a test of the Premier Division 's worthiness as well as an international examination on a particularly thorough level . |
| 17 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 18 | And then you get you work your way along and you get to the situation where erm the woman is pressured by feelings of embarrassment or social pressure not to say no . |
| 19 | At the house he invited Rose in but she refused with the excuse that it was too late . |
| 20 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 21 | The captain of the guard outside St Bartholomew 's let us through and we went under the darkened archway and up some steps into the chamber which led out on to the balcony . |
| 22 | When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak . |
| 23 | He brought his wife and children over and they settled into the fine house which he called Riverstown . |
| 24 | Benjamin waved me over and we looked through the open gate . |
| 25 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 26 | Time 's getting on and you glance at the clock , |
| 27 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 28 | The liner went in with no hassle at all , and I was grateful for Absat 's superior flexibility when the hose went on and I went into the rapidly filling hole to smooth out the creases . |
| 29 | ‘ But I felt really good early on and I went to the front and tried to keep a steady pace . |
| 30 | I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs . |