Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made things difficult for them during the aggressively secular phase of the French Revolution , when Itxassou in particular fell foul of the regime . |
| 2 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 3 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 4 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 5 | ‘ These are vital training opportunities many of them for the most disadvantaged young people , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 7 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 8 | He always spoke of him in the most affectionate terms . |
| 9 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 10 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 11 | The director of one of the national galleries whose trustees were appointed by Downing Street ran into them in the very early 1980s . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd better have a word with you about the incredibly clever trick-ending . |
| 13 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 14 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 15 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 16 | Evidence has been put before me of the most unusual arrangement come to , in relation to a possible ability of the parents to buy the property at half the sitting tenant valuation . |
| 17 | They sprawled across the padded benches before him with the somewhat jaded air of men who expected to hear nothing new . |
| 18 | As the doors opened she stepped out and glanced quickly round her at the tastefully lavish five-star décor . |
| 19 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 20 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 21 | The uncertainty in the number that I gave you , about fifteen to eighteen billion years , is not in any sense an error due to inaccuracies of measurements of the rate at which the universe is currently expanding , but there are systematic differences of opinion about how one should calibrate the expansion rate , because people have different means of measuring the distance from us of the most luminous objects . |
| 22 | Yet when you bumped into that same person , they would always talk about him in the most loving way . ’ |
| 23 | But this universal explorer continues his work at home , plumbing the world about him from the astronomically large to the microscopically small . |
| 24 | These prominent individuals , the populists of island life , cast in , and ready to accept , the role of ‘ men of the people ’ as a means of acquiring the power denied to them within the more formal mechanisms of local political life , were ready to add housing to their existing concerns . |
| 25 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 26 | Did the Prime Minister feel no sense of humiliation at having to meet the other 11 Heads of Government and having to explain to them in the most public way why the British economy was so uniquely vulnerable and fragile that we alone were unable to provide the basic minimum provisions of the social charter ? |
| 27 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 28 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 29 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 30 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |