Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 2 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 3 | Can the minis can the minister of state in view of his many visits to America , say whether he agrees with the Secretary of State 's earlier statement that American does not have a minimum wage legislation ? |
| 4 | Then they cry when you leave for the airport . |
| 5 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 6 | Two books in the recent past ( Pope and Weiner 1981 and Thackrah 1985 ) both contain veiled indications of the problems these civil service academics encounter when they write about the police . |
| 7 | If someone you know happens to own a copy , wait until you recover from the inevitable hysterics and check out the presentation : that is good . |
| 8 | ‘ If you think that 's exciting , ’ Alfred Carter laughed , ‘ just you wait until you go through the tunnel ! ’ |
| 9 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 10 | So just sit back and wait while I disappear into the studio . |
| 11 | So before we issue before we hand over the B one what do we do ? |
| 12 | Okay stop when you get to the map of the United States , please . |
| 13 | He said cyclists should get off their bikes and walk when they get to the High Street . |
| 14 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 15 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 16 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 17 | Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's |
| 18 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 19 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 20 | Everything , I mean if you go in the afternoon and you go early you can have a lovely dinner for fifty P |
| 21 | I mean if you go round the motorways , every other car is a Rover car . |
| 22 | I mean if you walk into the station on a day wanting to get on a train there are still several different fares you can pay . |
| 23 | I mean if you listen to the antiques . |
| 24 | Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds . |
| 25 | I mean if you did to the edge of the bath |
| 26 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 27 | ‘ Look before you walk onto the road , ’ says Anna . |
| 28 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 29 | I watch as they disappear down the road , then turn and walk through the hamlet which seems completely free of people . |
| 30 | Now watch as he goes round the roundabout . |