Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 2 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 3 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 4 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 5 | Where sharp edges and light cut into them the pointed back end of the brush was used to draw through them . |
| 6 | She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use . |
| 7 | Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively , his eyes on hers the entire time . |
| 8 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 9 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 10 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 11 | Turakina certainly knew — her words to him the previous afternoon had simply been a test of his resistance — and if she had knowledge of it , then so had Suragai . |
| 12 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 13 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 14 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 15 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 16 | In the spreaders forty feet above us the agile topmen , Basso and Rasman , executed hair-raising victory somersaults before shinning down the shrouds with the rough wires grasped between their toes . |
| 17 | And Jane , this is Jane to me the other day , throw your kitten off my floor and see if it lands on its feet . |
| 18 | Even Ceauşescu 's critics inside the Communist Party revealed how strong a hold over them the anti-agricultural ideology of Marxism possessed . |
| 19 | Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource . |
| 20 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 21 | He had talked to Apthorp about her the previous afternoon , and it was clear she had exaggerated his anxiety about her health . |
| 22 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 23 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 24 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 25 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 26 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 27 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 28 | if you do n't want it all did I see Robert with you the other day ? |
| 29 | They were at floor-level , and beyond the empty ranks of seats above them the only light came from two dim green EXIT signs . |
| 30 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |