Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 2 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 3 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 4 | I much prefer expressing my views publicly in the House to my constituents and others . |
| 5 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 6 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 7 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 8 | I had to make haste now or I would be late , so I threw my kit in the back of the Porsche , threaded my way through the traffic on the Kingston By-pass and then put my foot down on the M3 , keeping a wary eye open for the police . |
| 9 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 10 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 11 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 12 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 13 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 14 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 15 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 16 | I daresay you were right , I should n't have brushed my teeth out of the tap . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 18 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 19 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 20 | I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor . |
| 21 | You 've got your doubts and you know I 've had my doubts right from the |
| 22 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 23 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 25 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 26 | I failed to follow his train of thought , my mind still on the meeting with Rodriguez . |
| 27 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 28 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 29 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I do n't like to speak my mind twice on the same subject . |