Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [subord] [pron] [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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms .
12 So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home .
13 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
14 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 .
15 Therefore once you everything settles and you switch it on at night or in the day , anytime , as soon as somebody opens the door , the bell will go off .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 As soon as we heard the engine his grip tightened .
19 ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’
20 As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree .
21 As soon as we spotted the advertisement for the lighthouse we were intrigued .
22 As soon as we got the report we suspected — well , we knew , I suppose .
23 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
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 As soon as we have the results of the trials we shall publish them .
27 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 .
28 As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel .
29 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 .
30 The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher .
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