Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially where specially where they had the baby |
| 2 | It 's more like a luxurious rest-home for geriatrics , except rather than them paying the club , the club is essentially paying them . |
| 3 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 4 | Katherine started awake , confused for a single moment , images of the dream in which she had shot John Lewis still vivid behind her eyes — except now when she raised the gun and pulled the trigger , it was her son who spun away , red blossoming on his shirt . |
| 5 | It affected the Midland counties most of all , and it is here more than anywhere that we find the planned landscape of Georgian times . |
| 6 | And usually the man telling me he understood if eventually when he starts the job , he has n't understood at all , he 's just saying so , but I wanted to prove to the man himself that he could do it and prove to myself that he could do it . |
| 7 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 8 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 9 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 10 | We can not conclude with confidence whether pigeons have a map sense at all , and if so whether they use the sun or magnetic co-ordinates . |
| 11 | I 'll take it home this weekend and record family relations in Birkwood , that 'll be an eye opener because like if I read the handicap for him , he talks absolute gobbledegook , that 'll be interesting . |
| 12 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 13 | So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home . |
| 14 | The driver was from the Colonel 's staff , and he had travelled ahead a full month before so that he knew the city , the back-doubles they might need and the side streets . |
| 15 | but I query as well , whether just because you reduce the number of spa passengers in it that you , you , you do n't need a P S V licence , or the equivalent is n't a P S V licence but it 's , it 's |
| 16 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 17 | We require some evidence of loss , either from a vet or an accountant , and as soon as we receive the reports we look at them speedily and with sympathy . |
| 18 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 19 | As soon as we heard the engine his grip tightened . |
| 20 | ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’ |
| 21 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as we spotted the advertisement for the lighthouse we were intrigued . |
| 23 | ‘ As soon as we got the report we suspected — well , we knew , I suppose . |
| 24 | and I said as soon as we got the opportunity of moving away we would do , and we searched all over the erm , when it come to , went into Lincolnshire , went into Wales |
| 25 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 26 | It consists in pointing out the fact that , as soon as we use the stages as a type of classification , we find we have more doubtful borderline cases than typical ones , because of the great variation of social systems in history in different parts of the world . |
| 27 | As soon as we have the results of the trials we shall publish them . |
| 28 | As soon as we entered the house we heard a low moaning and , on opening the living-room door , saw our landlady rocking herself backwards and forwards in her chair . |
| 29 | As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel . |
| 30 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |