Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you lost something the ninety would increase accordingly ? |
| 2 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 3 | Especially if it gave me the credibility to help a friend in need . |
| 4 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 5 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 6 | Now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle |
| 7 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 8 | On the other hand , what are the ethical problems involved in deceiving volunteers , as did Milgram , or hospital doctors , as did Rosenhan , just for the sake of avoiding the problem of their behaving differently because they knew what the experiment was about ? |
| 9 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 10 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 11 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 12 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 13 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't come out here if I sent you the money for the air ticket , would you ? ’ |
| 15 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 16 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 17 | Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . |
| 18 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 19 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 20 | Now , they smiled , standing with fingers entwined , bodies touching , and even when he left her the smile would remain and she would save her tears until his train was out of sight , trying not to think of the brave goodbye that might be their last . |
| 21 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 22 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 23 | It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life . |
| 24 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 25 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 26 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 27 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 28 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 29 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 30 | Many parents felt that their own contribution to the assessment was only taken seriously when it supported what the professionals were saying . |