Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
| 2 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 3 | I mean I 've heard of the Four Horseman and the Apocalypse but I never know who wrote it . |
| 4 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
| 5 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 6 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 7 | Which as I say I 've got on the photocopier at the minute , and er which want to look at |
| 8 | Er and I say I want to come on the on the phone and I want to talk to James , I want to put him straight , I tell him that we 're not doing this and I want to tell him that we actually erm know that er the people will be concerned about us giving ourselves a huge pay rise . |
| 9 | What d' ya want to know about the on the phone stranger . |
| 10 | Begin by deciding how many hours sleep you expect to need throughout the week . |
| 11 | What d' you like doing in the middle of the day ? |
| 12 | It was the sort of kiss you saw portrayed on the cinema screen , between two madly attracted people in mortal danger who fell dementedly upon each other as if there was no tomorrow … |
| 13 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 14 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 15 | We know that the British Medical Association say it 's under-funded to the tune of six billion pounds but we 'll say what we said before we took control of this Council , we 'll open the books and we 'll direct resources to priorities . |
| 16 | They say he has traded with the Soul Eaters for centuries , although I do n't know why . |
| 17 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |
| 18 | Let me try to explain to the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West that we were faced with an undoubted campaign to swamp the arrangements for deciding such cases . |
| 19 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 20 | However , even research which has concentrated on the decision to take voluntary early retirement by those who have been able to exercise choice relatively freely , while still in employment , has noted external pressures on the individuals concerned ( see , for example , McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 : 860 ) . |
| 21 | Hope we 've finished with the snow now |
| 22 | We hope we have contributed to the debate surrounding human aggression in a constructive and novel way ; and that we have raised some questions surrounding a number of basic notions that have remained unexamined by both the scientific and lay communities . |
| 23 | We greatly value all the prayer support we have had in the past and would continue to seek your prayers for the way forward and that those who come along and do n't know Christ may find him . |
| 24 | ‘ As we move into independence , we will be conscious of the help and support we have had from the LEA . |
| 25 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
| 26 | ‘ Imagine him volunteering to look at the chicken pie . |
| 27 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 28 | Actually , the Blox were furtively retrieving a windsurfer sail they had tied to the anchor chain with an injudiciously big bowline , allowing the sail to sink into some 40 feet of water . |
| 29 | Families hearing evidence in Oxford hope it does get to the truth . |
| 30 | Unroll the carpet and let it get acclimatised to the room 's atmosphere and temperature overnight before laying . |