Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 2 | And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that . |
| 3 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 4 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 5 | ( It would be advisable to make a copy of this and keep it in the ‘ Record of Achievement ’ as insurance against loss of the original . ) |
| 6 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 7 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 8 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 9 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 10 | Cut this waste in half and cramp it to the opposite corner of the block , and drill a 1–1/4in diameter hole where the pieces meet . |
| 11 | All you need to do is drill a hole into the back of the engine to take a piece of thin wire , then fold the banner in half and glue it to the wire with PVA glue . |
| 12 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 13 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 14 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 15 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 16 | This means not taking on someone who is too highly qualified and would be easily bored or dissatisfied as much as finding someone with the ability to do the job . |
| 17 | just get the plate and er like stick it over with a bit of er filler or something like that and stick it over the top ! |
| 18 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 19 | They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day . |
| 20 | ‘ There , take that and read it over the week-end . |
| 21 | Bureaux are polled annually for suggestions for rewriting parts of the system and the IPG weights these and builds them into the plans . |
| 22 | The council wants to renew these and extend them to the whole of those districts and also bring in Pimlico and Westbourne . |
| 23 | Many more were inspired , while the great majority of Soviet disciples never went there at all and saw it through the propaganda of the Friends of the Soviet Union or the Daily worker . |
| 24 | Get them all and meet me in the Operations Room . |
| 25 | This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former . |
| 26 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 27 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 28 | The hole may twist and turn and the ferret will do no more than tie itself to the root while simply passing along the burrow . |
| 29 | mm , I shall er get the other lot in and do that , do that first thing in the morning , get every thing cleared up , and then if you give me your pull overs , I can hand wash those and put them in the spin drier so you 'd better sort them out do you think you 'd of put some tassels in that pelmet ? , you know where the I 've got some spare one 's no , do n't you remember I went into and he gave me a piece of the trimming and I can take the tassels off |
| 30 | Oh better take that biscuit tin away before they eat the lot , got that lid , get that and put , have one more and get it in the kitchen Charlotte |