Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [pron] 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 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 3 | Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know . |
| 4 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm , I came down and explained what the nature was , what you wanted to be done , you did n't really explain why and how important that our was , which I felt , that he said what he needing doing , he said what resources he had , and he said that , he did n't really set tasks erm , but he did ask them what they thought they should do you know . |
| 9 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 10 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 11 | Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace . |
| 12 | The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me . |
| 13 | I 'm surprised I 've had so few reactions but its holiday time and I guess a lot of people have smiled anyway and remembered its the ‘ silly season ’ ! |
| 14 | He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand . |
| 15 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 16 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 17 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 18 | As he fished , twisting his wrist back and forth , trying to get hold of more , a policeman came up and handed him the pile off the pavement . |
| 19 | His father raised him up and gave him the kiss of peace . |
| 20 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 21 | When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said . |
| 22 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 23 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
| 24 | Miles Lessingham is here and gave us the details . |
| 25 | ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda . |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , Kate , maybe someone took her there and gave her the drugs … . ’ |
| 27 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 28 | Walked in the lady said Oh right , you can can have a look round and showed us the rooms . |