Example sentences of "[det] [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 2 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 3 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 4 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 5 | like that and they go round the windows . |
| 6 | Very few people at all would ever ever ever ever say that and we look at the , when we look at the , the erm format you 'll find called it a sadist because chains on him from because on him so that we . |
| 7 | I started on farm work and then er we left that and we started with the County Council . |
| 8 | And , and obviously it was ridiculous , every second word I was having to look up and then I 'd get all that and it moves onto the next one . |
| 9 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 10 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | Benjamin lit one of these and we walked into the centre of the room . |
| 13 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 14 | Walking means exercise , walking means effort , you and I have to do something to keep ourselves spiritually awake , going back to our illustration again about the car driver on the motorway , you find yourself after so many miles just dozing off because the road is so straight , not much traffic around , not much to think about apart from the countryside that goes by and you 're there foot on the accelerator , no braking , no gear changing , nothing at all and you get to the point where you 're driving one-handed by the thing , that 's the time when you get so relaxed is n't it ? |
| 15 | You heard when they were n't at the reservation any more and you heard of the new man arriving . |
| 16 | The sunken cheeks which emphasized his cheekbones , the thin tight-lipped mouth were the same but they merged with the Latin appearance — further highlighted by the cut of his lightweight suit . |