Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 2 | He knew better than to ask her the time ; she was edgy enough as it was . |
| 3 | She was infuriated by his arrogant assumption that he could simply demand answers , infuriated still more by her own desire to simply cave in and tell him the truth . |
| 4 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 5 | ‘ If that does n't work we will then dig in and do it the long and hard way . ’ |
| 6 | Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know . |
| 7 | And they 'll have my old one in and give me the extra bread for it . |
| 8 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 9 | Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why do n't you just sit down and tell me the whole story from the beginning . ’ |
| 11 | Then turning to Millie , whose expression almost broke her down and gave her the urge to take her by the hand and run from this place , only her good sense stopped her ; and bending down , she put her arms around the child and when she felt the tightness of the embrace and the pressure of the thin body against her belly , it was only with an effort she stopped the tears from flowing . |
| 12 | Sit down and give me the time I need to explain everything to you ? ’ |
| 13 | If a club comes along and offers us the right money for Simon , then so be it , but at the end of the day erm we 'd like Simon on our books . |
| 14 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 15 | Now you can , those are both the same sides so you 're gon na en add them together and give it the sign that is common to both . |
| 16 | In their previous league match two weeks ago , they had travelled to Leicester knowing that a win would all but give them the championship , but that day they slumped to a surprise 3–2 defeat . |
| 17 | But that meaning is not determinate enough to be able to adjudicate between rival translations , so as to make it the case that at most one is right ( though we may never be able to tell which ) . |
| 18 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 19 | She had felt she 'd die rather than give him the satisfaction , but now she 'd have to be clever , for by implication she had denigrated his power and his commitment to protect her . |
| 20 | Rather than doing it the other way . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , go away and get us the coffee , ’ said Milton . |
| 22 | Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace . |
| 23 | The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me . |
| 24 | We tried to get through and ask him the question on air . |
| 25 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 26 | go on , you know go on and tell them the strengths of the window |
| 27 | He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand . |
| 28 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 29 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 30 | And whatever each one chose I would go off and tell them the loveliest sort of |