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

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1 The Trade Union workshop addressed some important issues , although women admitted to feeling apathetic and emotional about the various campaigns they were waging in their workplaces .
2 Who said : ‘ I am deeply sorry for the unkind things I said about Liverpool .
3 Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made .
4 All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
5 All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings .
6 Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses .
7 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
8 You had to have meals-on-wheels because that was what there was , and particularly the meals-on-wheels study we did in Islington [ Barker & Noble , 1983 ] which clearly indicated that half the recipients desperately needed meals-on-wheels , but they needed a lot of other things as well , and that for the other half they were inappropriate anyway .
9 We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one .
10 I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it .
11 So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful .
12 When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time .
13 When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred .
14 s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see .
15 Pilade was asleep , leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for .
16 But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification .
17 His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time .
18 Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ?
19 None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen .
20 Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies .
21 But still not as good as some of the handicapped children he 'd come to see .
22 From another encylopedia , this time of African animals , she identified for us some of the small animals they occasionally caught and ate .
23 Les Bence looks at some of the great matches he has witnessed .
24 Regular readers of Hairflair will now doubt recognise the name Ralph Kleeli Hair and some of the superb work they have produced .
25 Based in Lancashire , Ralph Kleeli Hair and some of the superb work they have produced .
26 Some of the best salmon I 've ever tasted .
27 He says ; They are some of the best times I have ever had .
28 Chris feels it is some of the best stuff they have ever done .
29 But this new album , er I 've become er obsessed by it because I 'm so excited , er cos I think it 's actually some of the best work I 've ever done .
30 I know most of you will have seen the 7–0 vs Southampton ( 32 passes was n't it ) , or the 5–1 vs Man Utd , but I reckon the 4–0 murder of Aston Villa ( who were in the top 5 at the time ) at Villa Park and the 6–1 at Hillsborough were some of the best soccer I have ever seen .
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