Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 2 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 3 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 4 | The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . |
| 5 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 6 | Joan , Diane and Matt , so we 'll see if we can get good this time so show you how the same . |
| 7 | The corporal and the airmen first put on some trousers and literally threw themselves down the brae to meet the girls . |
| 8 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 9 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 10 | Now if you want that drink you 'd better tell me where the fridge is so I can get some milk . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better tell it just the same , ’ I said . |
| 12 | Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope . |
| 13 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 14 | The fact that it is made by men with no faces and only two fingers each merely makes it all the more remarkable . |
| 15 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 16 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |
| 17 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 18 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 19 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |
| 20 | Just push it up the bum . |
| 21 | If necessary , use a padsaw to free the disc , but be careful not to lose it down the stack . |
| 22 | Well you just got it out the cupboard did n't you ? |
| 23 | Even if we knew from a multiplicity of attestations that the thinness in question was specifically a thin curtain or veil or gauze , we would still not know what precisely the image was , for a curtain could be vertical or horizontal , it could be used to divide or screen or cover , it could serve the one who spreads it out , or someone else for whom it is spread out . |
| 24 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 25 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 26 | Rather than being a fair reflection of those behaviours objectively causing us collectively the most avoidable suffering , criminal law categories are artful , creative constructs designed to criminalize only some victimizing behaviours , usually those more frequently committed by the relatively powerless , and to exclude others , usually those frequently committed by the powerful against subordinates . |
| 27 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 28 | we 'll just send them back the problem and send fully stamped |
| 29 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 30 | ‘ Just tell me where the gennleman wants to go . ’ |