Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 2 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 3 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 4 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Route II came in 1943 with Brian Kellet climbing on from the chimney rift of Route I to cross the upper slabs . |
| 6 | Of course I know the vast majority — especially the New People — do n't care a damn about any of the arts . |
| 7 | Er and of course I seen the present managers are , are th the one you know only just lives down the road here he 's recently retired . |
| 8 | Of course I share the hon. Gentleman 's sympathy in the case of Mr. Newell . |
| 9 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 10 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman that assurance . |
| 11 | Of course I give the hon. Gentleman the pledge that we shall take up any of those cases , should he send the details to me . |
| 12 | In the afternoon I watch the English football . |
| 13 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 14 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 15 | Er Mr Chairman I trust the local member Mr be my |
| 16 | And with my own eyes I saw the stalled clock at Treblinka … |
| 17 | With fresh eyes I surveyed the familiar landscape . |
| 18 | From these fragments I reconstructed the brooding melancholy of a land subject to disaster after disaster , a family forced out through poverty , and I wove from insubstantial vapour the misty quilt in which I sensed his childhood to have been enveloped . |
| 19 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 20 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 21 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 22 | So when we walked from the pool to the car I felt the whole impact of the sun . |
| 23 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 24 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 25 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 26 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 27 | The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors . |
| 28 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 29 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 30 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |