Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah you 're right I look at the headlights . |
2 | My Lords , because I consider that the decision of the visitor was right I concur in the order proposed by your Lordships that this appeal should be dismissed . |
3 | It would be possible I suppose with the commitment of people for the local party to make on the committee . |
4 | ‘ Eleven I have at the back there . ’ |
5 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
6 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
7 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
8 | Cos by then , they wo n't get to , they wo n't go to the crossing until about eight I suppose in the evening , it 'll be a night crossing wo n't it ? |
9 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
10 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
11 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
12 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
13 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
14 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
15 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
16 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
17 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
18 | All this I learn from the official match programme , price sixpence and now something of a collector 's item . |
19 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
20 | The other half I sat in the Sheikha 's section trying to be as inconspicuous as possible . |
21 | When I was 12 I tunnelled into the side of the local canal and inserted a glass panel . |
22 | Jane 's have some I think by the look of things . |
23 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
24 | Erm and er so you know but you 've just got to be slightly careful I think of the figures and erm i if if you know it 's much better if you can talk to the the |
25 | Erm it w would be er pretty foolish I think after the lessons that have been learned about this that you know we should sink back i i into erm contentment as it were , er , er , er , er |
26 | So I did , just for a fortnight , but it was fourteen miles there in the morning , and fourteen back at night , and I 'm afraid I threw in the sponge ! |
27 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |
28 | It was this which led to the appeal being re-argued before the Appellate Committee of seven which now reports to the House . |
29 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
30 | The centre will , however , often ‘ attempt to neutralise the influences of local interests in local states ’ ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 41 ) , and we claim such an attempt has taken place from 1979 to 1988 and that it is this which lies behind the current restructuring of local-central government relations . |