Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 You know , I think we should tie em all up with the same
2 so its all down to the league now …
3 Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) .
4 Unable to get their own back on the media hacks , Charles and Diana seemed happy to let the comic pair , clutching drinks and slurring their words , do it for them .
5 They were either born rich , or they 're getting their own back on the kids who beat them up at school . ’
6 MIDDLESBROUGH players are out to get their own back against the team that killed their dream of a first-ever major Wembley final .
7 India certainly got its own back for the British Raj by imposing this horrific version of the bungalow upon us .
8 It was me put you all on to the Om prayer .
9 " I 'm going to sound like your teacher now and shoo you all back into the classroom .
10 See you all down at the mortuary . ’
11 We 'd like to ask you all down to the Harvest , to make up .
12 We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times !
13 ‘ If we can pick them all up at the same time we wo n't lose any of them . ’
14 And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them .
15 He motioned them all up to the altar rails .
16 Tiles were the ro making the tiles was a major operation because erm when they first tried to make the tiles they tried they dug a hole big hole at Rawcliffe and they they tried to make forty thousand tiles , line them all up in the pit and they brought something like forty tonnes of dry wood chippings from the erm saw mills in er forest but they could n't quite get it hot enough so the whole lot had to be thrown away do again .
17 Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them .
18 and they come round and they bring them all out to the front
19 ‘ A fil-thy temper — he has thrown them all out , he has thrown them all out of the window . ’
20 She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window .
21 FUNNY how summer brings them all out of the woodwork is n't it ?
22 His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets .
23 We 'd have sorted them all out in the tunnel ! ’
24 Plant in the glass room , put them all out underneath the sprinklers .
25 He came out on stage and called them all down to the orchestra pit right in front of him .
26 But I noted them all down with the dignified " we " , for he and I now agreed .
27 After she has washed , dried and ironed the clothes , he quietly puts them all back in the machine at 60 degrees .
28 Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground ,
29 It 's a matter of recognizing the anger in me on an everyday basis so that I do n't bottle it all up to the point of explosion .
30 No this make things a lot easier , instead of taking it all up to the full council .
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