Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 2 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 3 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 4 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 5 | How much more wrong could Back To The Planet be ? |
| 6 | It has long been the case that where a company is would up by the court , the liquidation is deemed to commence at the date of presentation of the petition . |
| 7 | One of them told Trent to fetch a gas can over to the Co-operative quay to be filled at the Co-op 's gas pump . |
| 8 | So you can up to the colliery and see if you can get one there . |
| 9 | But if you can out about the trailer |
| 10 | ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking . |
| 11 | He 'll get what he can out of the T'ang . |
| 12 | David Parkin placed the crushed lager can back on the coffee table and examined it regretfully , like a faded photograph . |