Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [noun sg] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , and erm because it 's all mass produced er they can actually build a nuclear power station for half the price that we can that obviously has an effect on the economics . |
| 2 | He had believed after all the jogging that he would have the rate denoted as an athlete 's on his chart . |
| 3 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 4 | That will do great damage , but even after all the pain that it will inflict , it will fail . |
| 5 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 6 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |
| 7 | Being one of her biggest fans I would like to say I am sick and tired of all the criticism that she receives . |
| 8 | Let's talk about first of all the boat that they went in . |
| 9 | Well no , voting is when somebody goes to the polling booth they have to weigh all the pro 's and cons of all the information that they 've been told . |
| 10 | At the same time he had to sound confident about the ultimate triumph of socialism , against all the evidence that it has failed . |
| 11 | Tom 's quick testing of her tendon reflexes revealed their characteristic briskness , and both the medical professionals realised that the condition was progressing , when they had been hoping against all the evidence that it would not . |
| 12 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 13 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 14 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Can I say that as part of the budget discussions , this year and last year , the labour group went over all the services that the City Council provides with a fine tooth comb and argued out the case for all the spending that we then put forward in our budget . |
| 16 | For all the thought that she had given to his ordinary life , Johnny could have been a milkman , for all she cared , or an Insurance broker working in the City , whose daily brush with danger was in trying to cross the road . |
| 17 | and thanks for all the effort that you have put in personally . |
| 18 | For all the time that we spend doing it — about one third of our lives — we have very little natural insight into the sleeping process . |
| 19 | for all the time that we have to sit behind you when we 're trying to drive around blowing our horns going get out the way . |
| 20 | Mr Landor , for all his selfishness , for all the fact that he was old and self-absorbed , felt the change in her . |
| 21 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 22 | he 's happy , er said are you happy with all the preparation that we 've done |
| 23 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 24 | contribution rule remains , along with all the damage that it does — especially to local authorities that are struggling to collect the poll tax . |
| 25 | Chabrier 's music for this miniature operetta is a pastiche of 18th century style , but filled with all the charm that you might expect from him . |
| 26 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 27 | In those circumstances , I believe that the military pursued this with all the diligence that they could . |
| 28 | Closing the costings gap is never easy , and is resisted by the Service departments with all the ingenuity that they can muster . |
| 29 | Several hon. Members from the north have stressed tonight , with all the determination that we can bring to bear , the need for the northern region to be considered in this development . |
| 30 | He said yesterday : ‘ The situation is difficult … and we 're going to have to tread very carefully about how we proceed , and it 's important that we do so with all the information that we can possibly have . ’ |