Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 2 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 3 | It 's too high get it back on the chair ! |
| 4 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 5 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 6 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 7 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 8 | AT LEAST Barnet players could always turn to Barry Fry , but now he 's gone , they are prepared to follow him out of the club in a mass exodus . |
| 9 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 10 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 11 | He was content to give himself up to the occasion , similar to others he had described in his own books but none of which had ever seemed to possess the colour , the noise , the smell , the sheer vibrancy that was before him now . |
| 12 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 13 | She became so tame it was impossible to release her back into the wild . |
| 14 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 15 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 16 | A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed . |
| 17 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 18 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 19 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 20 | A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails . |
| 21 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 22 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 23 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 24 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 25 | That still messes me up on the guitar . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It will be great to bring him back into the club , and his experience will help us . |
| 27 | With the ball often in need of a team of scuba-divers to dig it out of the muddy waters , the decision made sense . |
| 28 | She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry . |
| 29 | It , it was , it was a disastrous weekend for the U's , what on earth are they going to do tonight , are they going to be able to pull it out of the hat and , and |
| 30 | He had assured her he would be able to lead her out of the forest , but so far they seemed only to have become tangled further in its mazy pathways . |