Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said .
2 erm , you have , I have n't , and erm , there was a photograph that I cut out of the paper sometime before he abdicated , over the Prince of Wales at the races with Mrs Simpson .
3 The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance .
4 The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon .
5 So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony .
6 okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ?
7 ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’
8 You must do all the inserts first and then copy down so that you end up with the right formula at the end of the day which is the C five , C eight .
9 The bigger the flock , the smaller the chance that you end up as the cat 's next victim .
10 By keeping the table between the two of you , you could lure him round it so that you end up nearer the exit ; the same idea can be used in the street with parked cars .
11 You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you
12 They come with stubs that you fill in with the date and details of your application , brief notes and the result , to form a mini-interview file .
13 Not with all National Savings , there are some that do n't a apply the compound interest factor , you get the interest at the end on the sum that you put in at the beginning .
14 It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . "
15 That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ?
16 ‘ The second is that we step out to the supermarket and pick up some supplies . ’
17 What sort of percentage do the erm essays that we hand in before the exams
18 And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it .
19 The music that we beat out in the afternoons was their music , the music of the place , sea shanties and sand-sea shanties .
20 She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park .
21 ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment .
22 Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything .
23 This high turnover means that they come on to the unemployment register for short periods and so distort the figures .
24 One theory children produce about the origin of babies is that they come out of the bowel .
25 So I did the unforgivable , which was to suggest to my boyfriend that they go on to the summit without me .
26 Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer .
27 They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’
28 In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs .
29 The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position .
30 It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists .
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