Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should it be zero or below before they receive the small amount of assistance of £6 a week ? |
| 2 | I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby . |
| 3 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 4 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 5 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 6 | That Neil was not sleeping there after all , or merely that he shut the flaps at night against the midges or the weather ? |
| 7 | And , to try and give options for members , at different expenditure levels of how we may move forward , because it is n't a cheap process , or not if we follow the Lancashire model it is n't a cheap process , but of course we can scale our proposals down . |
| 8 | One of the cons of the mainstream is the industrial process and that 's what you choose to join or not when you have the necessary skills . |
| 9 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 10 | When we take a Bach Flower or homoeopathic remedy , or even when we smell the fragrance of a beautiful flower , the healing effect is triggered at a subtle level , in the auric body ( explained below ) and filters ‘ inwards ’ as it were , to the physical body . |
| 11 | soc : … or simply because they remembered the patient . |
| 12 | Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest . |
| 13 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 14 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 15 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 16 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |
| 17 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 18 | And so if you use the whatever what is it you wanted to use in yours ? |
| 19 | Declarer is marked with at least ace-king to five — or more likely six — in diamonds , and so if you cover the jack with the queen declarer will win with a top honour and West 's discard will make your ten the subject of a marked finesse on the second round . |
| 20 | Work him up and down while she licked the rest of his body , work her way up , lift herself over him , her fingers now slipping inside herself . |
| 21 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |
| 22 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 23 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 24 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 25 | The there are parish ministers who are willing to listen and long before it reaches the stage of lawyers and divorce . |
| 26 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 27 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 28 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 29 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 30 | and finally if you enjoyed the Tour de France … take yourself out into the Cotswolds on Sunday for the biggest local cycle race of the year … it 's the Tour of the Cotswolds … calling amongst other places at Stroud … |