Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 The car of the future and they call it the ’ Urbanizer . ’
2 Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are .
3 Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news .
4 and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one
5 But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’
6 Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure .
7 And the last one is the pragmatist erm we 've got Mark , John and Marie who have come out quite high on the on the The pragmatist th the title that you suggest what the situations you actually learn best from and pragmatists like training its practical
8 But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it .
9 But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance .
10 Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ?
11 So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know .
12 Oh , would n't I like to be a fly on the wall when you tell her the latest !
13 You have won the game when you guess who the quote was from .
14 Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking !
15 My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed .
16 I wo n't have anything more to do with you lot till you give him the elbow .
17 They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is .
18 I give you the input and you tell me the answer .
19 ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’
20 And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together .
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