Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that we examine in the next section . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 3 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 4 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 5 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 6 | In the first three months of 1993 , they bought a net $1.2 billion of South Korean shares , more than half as much as they invested in the whole of 1992 . |
| 7 | For my money it can rain as much as it likes in the coming weeks . |
| 8 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 9 | That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said Camille from the sitting-room and Scarlet felt happier : all that she loved in the world was safely indoors , not roaming the streets with the dispossessed , the vengeful , the undead . |
| 11 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 12 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 13 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 14 | First of all because we said in the minutes last night , er last week , last time whenever it was . |
| 15 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 16 | First of all when you come in the everybody got a drink of whisky . |
| 17 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 18 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 19 | I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past . |
| 20 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 22 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 23 | I doubt any more whether we live in the sort of society where you could have such rules . |
| 24 | same as you have in the |
| 25 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 26 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |