Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 3 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 4 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 5 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 6 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 7 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 8 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 10 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 11 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 12 | Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom . |
| 13 | Give me the leave to make the best of my fortune and only pardon me the abuse of your house . |
| 14 | I only asked him the other day |
| 15 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 16 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 17 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 18 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 19 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 20 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 21 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 22 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 23 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 24 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 25 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 26 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 27 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 28 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 29 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 30 | Well they 'd basically do what the British troops would do but they would n't lose much hate against them would they ? |