Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 2 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 3 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 4 | Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 5 | they have this sort of automatic estimating system with key information just goes shooting out to the amazing so , yeah a wee bit about each one would be helpful |
| 6 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 7 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 8 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 9 | For the irony is , in a society like ours apparently dedicated to ‘ law and order ’ and having a penal policy based largely on deterrent principles , it appears that corporate crime somehow gets left out of the arena of legal and social control . |
| 10 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 11 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 12 | Alex because she has n't wa ma although mother 's been up erm , nanny always gets shot off to the erm the home and she has n't actually seen her . |
| 13 | Or the black Broadway actor who always fears ending up in the gutter . |
| 14 | In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first . |
| 15 | When , when she does come out she usually likes to walk round on the flat |
| 16 | So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division . |
| 17 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 18 | Free time now means catching up with the things they have missed out on in the past : novels by Michael Moorcock and Toni Morrison , the new Australian cinema , opera cassettes borrowed from the public library , gardening and fishing , weekend trips to the landscapes of their respective childhoods . |
| 19 | Marie , who is single , really enjoys mucking in with the lads . |
| 20 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 21 | That war now threatens to break out into the open . |
| 22 | But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration . |
| 23 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |