Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where sharp edges and light cut into them the pointed back end of the brush was used to draw through them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He made another pass at me the other day . " |
| 4 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 7 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 8 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 9 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 10 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 11 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , surely you did n't fall for all that nonsense of his the other night ? |
| 12 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 13 | Thank you The the the good news for you the good news for you is that if we erm run out of time on Tuesday morning , we can have the hall all night , Tuesday night . |
| 14 | yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club . |
| 15 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 16 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 21 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 22 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |
| 23 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 24 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 25 | ‘ Napkins , ’ laughed a young wife to me the following day . |
| 26 | special name for it the square root . |
| 27 | MARK Thatcher was facing a big tax increase last night after his the Swiss-based bosses reportedly ended his £80,000 contract six months early . |
| 28 | That 's er eight in seven games for him the last seven . |