Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley . |
| 2 | She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window . |
| 3 | Steve Smith , the 19-year-old Liverpool high jumper , smashed his British and Commonwealth indoor record with 2.37m , but it was only enough to earn him the bronze . |
| 4 | Better not tell her the truth . |
| 5 | REPLYING to the letter from Brian Hunter ( HAS March 30 ) in relation to food for diabetics in hospital , he has obviously not understood what the trouble was . |
| 6 | Unfortunately he 's reactionary enough not to accord me the same freedom ! ’ |
| 7 | I do iron me pants but I only just show them the iron |
| 8 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 9 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 10 | So now tell me the truth . ’ |
| 11 | When readers have written in , worried about whether to tell about a secret lover , you 've so often given them the excellent advice : ‘ Keep mum ’ . |
| 12 | Minch had long ago taught him the rule among eagles that unless an eagle is seeking to take over territory then he should leave a pair to rear their young in peace . |
| 13 | Any territories that rallied to Free France would enhance the legitimacy of his movement , provide strategic bases for his forces , and perhaps even give him the opportunity to transfer his headquarters to a base on French soil . |
| 14 | So never mind what the executive amends , recommend , stick your hand up for three eight eight and three eight nine and give a bit of power back to the people . |
| 15 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 16 | Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have |
| 17 | At the moment I 'm not entirely clear what the difference is between these two forms of words . |
| 18 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 19 | A political gamble was taken too : that if hostages were released , Americans would not greatly mind what the price or the means had been . |
| 20 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 21 | If they want their own snappy one they would , you 're quite right , it 's not necessarily handing them the bad one on a plate just in case they might use it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is not enough to give him the facts . |
| 24 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 25 | A detailed planning budget for both capital and operating accounts must now be prepared not only to give you the information you require for your own plans , but also as the main evidence to persuade the Bank Manager to finance your endeavours . |
| 26 | When students are learning to glide , the instructor is not only teaching them the technique of flying a glider , but also how to make decisions and judgements in the air . |
| 27 | Making a test piece will not only give you the correct tension but will also show up how often you need to cross the cables . |
| 28 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As go-between , the Spirit not only teaches us the truth of God , he opens our eyes to the one in whom that truth became incarnate , and guides us in our lives . |