Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails . |
| 2 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 3 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 4 | SOCIAL ‘ Sociologists apparently have come round to the belief that 50 per cent of middle-class parents who send their children to private schools would be happy to put them in the state system if dinner money was renamed lunch money . ’ |
| 5 | But if you do feel like it , you only have to call in at the shop . |
| 6 | We all know the prehistoric method of treating the dead , which obtains even to-day in the less enlightened parts of the country — the body hurriedly placed in the coffin , the packing with sawdust , and the necessarily precipitate screwing down of the lid . |
| 7 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 8 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 9 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 10 | Those who fail the Cl test flee in terror out onto the battlements — they just want to get out of the tower . |
| 11 | ‘ I just want to get out of the rain . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I just want to get out of the area and reach a phone . ’ |
| 13 | Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there . |
| 14 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |
| 15 | If I increase the bubbles in the column they just seem to come out at the water inlet holes at the water surface . |
| 16 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 17 | Relief normally like to sweep out through the crowds , as an orchestrated extension to their dramatic final stage exit . |
| 18 | I did n't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches . |
| 19 | It 's really not hard at all ; you just have to dive in at the deep end . ’ |
| 20 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 21 | Well , all the types listed above have come out of the Soviet Union recently . |
| 22 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 23 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 24 | Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P-bass , always . |
| 26 | ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn . |
| 27 | oh yeah they usually manage to come back in the end |
| 28 | it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business . |
| 29 | Sticks can be stabbed at you but chains can not ; they must be swung , and the heavier they are , the slower the swing — giving you more time to get out of the way . |
| 30 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |