Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass . |
| 3 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 4 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 5 | For these not only reveal something about the nature of criminal law and hence crime itself , but also how corporations are able to channel some of their resources into a concerted attempt to prevent their socially injurious behaviours from being criminalized . |
| 6 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 7 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 8 | The grieving widow was rich and powerful enough to hound anyone through the courts . |
| 9 | The feeble nature of the weak force and the short interaction distance together imply something about the nature of the particle exchange : it must be relatively heavy . |
| 10 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
| 11 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 13 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 14 | My mother obviously found something in the house . |
| 15 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 16 | So try one with the Xs in now . |
| 17 | But long enough to learn something about the man . |
| 18 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 19 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 20 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 21 | His glossy , clean , well-organized world , that acne-free world of snowy white clothes , gleaming kitchen surfaces and smiling , happy families eating , shopping , and playing together had none of the drabness , confusion , and dark corners of her own messy existence . |
| 22 | These sections naturally follow one from the other , and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns . |
| 23 | Strolling with his owner through a field littered with pebbles and stones , he suddenly spotted one in the crowd that really took his fancy . |
| 24 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 25 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 26 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 27 | The Government did nothing and have apparently learnt nothing from the experience . |
| 28 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 30 | We 've already checked everyone in the piazza once . ’ |