Example sentences of "the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you take up the normal I do n't tend to do this , but this is really the best way to do the shot . |
| 2 | But I almost owe it to the reborn me not to take that kind of shit from any man again . |
| 3 | His line on playing live is one of the canniest you can come across : ‘ There 's always one element that 's not quite right . |
| 4 | the more calories they will burn up and the leaner they will become . |
| 5 | the ineradicable sown-in-us |
| 6 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 7 | He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site . |
| 8 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 9 | We looked at about 25 or 30 , but this is about the nicest we saw . |
| 10 | When I cleaned it up , I found it to be in really good condition and one of the nicest I have ever seen come out of the river . |
| 11 | Seriously though , Fenland people are some of the nicest you could wish to meet and they will often help you if they possibly can . |
| 12 | On the 17th they were past the mountains . |
| 13 | By the 17th we knew what we had to do . |
| 14 | And the 17th we got to grips with each time , the long short hole . |
| 15 | If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down . |
| 16 | When it does n't work they turn away , none the unhappier it would seem . |
| 17 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 18 | By the 1820s they were especially prominent in the campaign for abstention . |
| 19 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 20 | By the 1820s it was being enjoyed on the West and East coasts of Africa , and an agency was set up in Bristol to open up markets in England where by 1860 more Guinness was sold than any other beer . |
| 21 | We were two strokes ahead of Dai Rees , but at the 15th we hit trouble . |
| 22 | At the 15th he knocked it on to the green comfortably , but we had a long wait because poor old Tommy was in trouble again . |
| 23 | On the 15th he hit his drive such a prodigious distance that the one wag among the gallery suggested that drugs testing should be introduced at subsequent Matches . |
| 24 | Ideally joined by a bar ( less fiddly than a chain ) , they should feature masonic crests , ‘ the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes ’ perhaps being best , in accordance with the rule that the more eccentric these groups sound , the duller they are . |
| 25 | The older the leaves are the duller they appear . |
| 26 | And that that came round er I mean they were stamped and er the turn you know the each I I do n't I do n't remember what what they were examined , but er th you know the the that was the law that they had to be . |
| 27 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 28 | Six weeks after the acute she came along with headaches , anxiety , depression and low-grade digestive symptoms . |
| 29 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 30 | The Ersatz they were asked to give , and gave , was of low quality . |