Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked had a very heated discussion erm where I si wanting to be having the careers teachers in and working with the forms etcetera and doing it , the er job wise and he would n't entertain at all |
| 2 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 3 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 4 | He left the mines eventually and got a job with a builder — he could turn his hand to anything — one of those men , you know , plumbing , anything . |
| 5 | His wife recognised the signs immediately and made herself scarce . |
| 6 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 7 | I have now visited the clinics twice and have come to know many of the volunteer workers from Australia , France , Holland and Britain as well as many of the patients living in the Calcutta slums . |
| 8 | From his wrinkled face and sunburned skin he looked as though he had risen from the ranks rather than graduating from Saint Cyr or the Ecole Militaire . |
| 9 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 10 | A little boy came out of the woods opposite and began skiing down the slope towards the road . |
| 11 | All slides were then reviewed by one pathologist ( NH ) , who was aware that the cases comprised both RP and control groups but who had not seen the cases previously and had no knowledge of individual clinical histories or outcomes . |
| 12 | EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory . |
| 13 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 14 | Economic life moves in cycles of peaks and troughs , and we must take advantage of the peaks so as to withstand the pressures of the troughs . |
| 15 | When it happens , rub the fingers vigorously or plunge the hands into warm water . |
| 16 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 17 | But as Kerry bade her goodnight Lisa had decided to take the sketches home and finish them there . |
| 18 | After pulling up the curtain to the desired width , tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off . |
| 19 | Pull up the tape to fit the track ; tie the cords neatly and insert curtain hooks . |
| 20 | Tie the cords together and fix cleat in position . |
| 21 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 22 | Other duties of the maître are defined in the article ‘ Ensemble ’ : ‘ It is for maîtres de musique , conducteurs and chefs d'orchestre above all to guide , or hold back , or hurry along the musicians so as to obtain ensemble everywhere . ’ |
| 23 | Drain the vegetables well and arrange in the dish ; add the herbs and season with salt and pepper ; pour the hot stock over . |
| 24 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 25 | Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them . |
| 26 | They will welcome enormously the steps forward that have been made in the signing of the new declaration on racism and xenophobia , especially the penultimate paragraph , which states : ’ The European Council asks Ministers and the Commission to increase their effort to combat discrimination and xenophobia , and to strengthen the legal protection for third country nationals ’ . |
| 27 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
| 28 | A breeze was coming in from the water , stirring the branches overhead and sending a low , unearthly moan through the woodland . |
| 29 | At dawn yesterday , Group Four piled on the pressure , catching the tides right and putting more distance between herself and the rest of the fleet as she approached Southampton . |
| 30 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |