Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 3 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 4 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 5 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 6 | we , we 've only just got out the bath and then she says come on hurry up now |
| 7 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 8 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 10 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 11 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 12 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 13 | Likewise , our early ancestors most probably sifted out the useful plants by scent , sight and intuition . |
| 14 | If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century , other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps . |
| 15 | Mr Kenneth Baker probably wisely turned down the offer of becoming Secretary of State for Wales but it was a serious proposition . |
| 16 | Two owner-trainers , Dave Smart and Billy Long , are both double handed in the final , with Bridies Ragatag and Ballitore Squire and Glowpaws Jimmy and Bobbys Patsy . |
| 17 | Maeght have also recently brought out the fifth and sixth volumes of their catalogue raisonné ‘ Miró Lithographe ’ . |
| 18 | It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom . |
| 19 | He may also allocate seats to new entrants , but the decision on this is now generally taken on the vote of all members of the chambers . |
| 20 | The next one is er thinking about the conversations you did not record which of these was the main reason why they were n't recorded please just read out the numbers on the card . |
| 21 | The scheme was expensive , with in effect £8000 of public money being spent on each dwelling , since the local authority contribution to UDG almost exactly cancelled out the price it received for the land . |
| 22 | Under hypnosis they were not afraid to ‘ ad lib ’ ; they happily regarded fragmentary or inaccurate memories as acceptable , and then imaginatively filled in the bits , sometimes even whole verses , which they could not remember . |
| 23 | Any slip is then immediately transmitted up the rope and braked by those above . |
| 24 | Rudely , without waiting for him to hand it to her , she snatched it out of his hand , then anxiously turned over the scrawled papers one by one . |
| 25 | Fishermen of the time from Lough Neagh almost certainly travelled up the Bann to the crossing-point at the place where Portadown now stands . |
| 26 | As Coleman subsequently reported to Control , this pretty well summed up the relationship between Hurley and the spooks in Nicosia . |
| 27 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 28 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |
| 29 | and we put a little sex appeal into it and turn it into what I thought was a very contemporary , viable and graphic arts piece that would be very broadly hung on the wall and used . |
| 30 | Central to the legislators ' notions of purity was an all-pervasive blood taboo which , as has been demonstrated above , embraced foodstuffs , sacrificial victims , humans , etc. , and very definitely separated out the male from the female . |