Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 4 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 5 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 6 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 8 | Hundred and fifty for him for a fortnight at the height of the season and two hundred and fifty each for us at the height of the season . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never had a winner in France and perhaps Lyric Fantasy can change that for me in the Abbaye . |
| 10 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 11 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 12 | ’ But it ca n't make life any easier for you at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 14 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 15 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 16 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 17 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 18 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 19 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 20 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 21 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 22 | There were 12 of us on the boat and three full time crew . |
| 23 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 24 | Do they include that in the scheme , some of them on the rate , I wo n't bother with that anyway it 's not our problem |
| 25 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 26 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 27 | Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class . |
| 28 | Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away . |
| 29 | But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone . |
| 30 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |