Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 2 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 3 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 4 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 5 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 6 | Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 . |
| 7 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 8 | Yeah , right I went in the playground . |
| 9 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 10 | ‘ Eventually I got onto the runway and found my wife . |
| 11 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 12 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 13 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
| 14 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 15 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
| 16 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 17 | Ma has still not appeared , which leaves only me to deal with the scraps and slivers before the flies from the sewage works arrive . |
| 18 | But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession . |
| 19 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 20 | After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name . |
| 21 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 22 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
| 23 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 24 | Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up . |
| 25 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 26 | Interestingly enough I looked into the same situation in America and Germany and in all three mighty industrial countries six out of the top ten firms had gone . |
| 27 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
| 28 | When we began to slow down I knocked on the door . |
| 29 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 30 | ‘ I still do miss her so much , but when I 'm down I think of the way she kept so cheerful after losing Dad , although she missed him terribly … so I try to keep cheerful for her . ’ |