Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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1 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
2 | Behind the sand-dunes , schools , offices , churches , a market , a railway station , a radio station and hundreds of homes began to spring up with all the rapidity of a cow-town on the American prairie . |
3 | Yes it was , and I think it also er really put paid to the journalists that came along expecting to write our political obituary , because what did come over in all the workshops er and in the main plenary sessions , was that , that local , local parties are doing very well indeed and are getting a very good reception on the doorstep , in fact some other polls on , on er the Green strategy to the environment show that people actually do still trust the Greens far more than any other party . |
4 | Oh , he had come out with all the usual male excuses . |
5 | True enough , in the original imprint of Scouting for Boys he had sounded off with all the usual gusto about ‘ How the Empire Must be Held ’ : . |
6 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
7 | In March they returned to England , and he attempted to catch up with all the work and correspondence he had left behind . |