Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often .
2 Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said :
3 ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply .
4 Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely .
5 The production of Mark 3 vehicles , at first for the High Speed Trains , began in 1975 , but the proportion of even top-grade express trains composed of them in the early 1980s was stili small .
6 Thirty years later , scientists from Rothamsted Experimental Station found the heavy metals persisting in the soil — 85 per cent of them in the top ten inches .
7 This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture .
8 As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment .
9 I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost .
10 She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses .
11 She crossed the room and sat opposite him in the ratty old armchair .
12 Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry .
13 His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard .
14 Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in .
15 The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality .
16 She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something …
17 The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth .
18 On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances .
19 Jack pushed past him into the poky front parlour and the others followed .
20 ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s .
21 After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating .
22 It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive .
23 I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running .
24 Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points .
25 I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all .
26 The public got a very early taste of it in the late 1970s when he was invited to play in the World International single wicket competition at The Oval .
27 If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) .
28 Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better .
29 The Columbus cast is half old-timers and half new blood , much of it from the so-called alternative comedy set .
30 All of us in the European socialist movement in the European trades union movement insists that employees are not just units of production , but are entitled to rights at work across the European community .
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