Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 2 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 3 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 4 | Erm , my mother calls me the eternal student because I tell her that there 's absolutely no way I 'm gon na look for full time employment ! |
| 5 | A glance at her watch gave her the perfect excuse to leave immediately … |
| 6 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 7 | Her age makes her the ideal candidate for a pension mortgage . |
| 8 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 9 | Had her mother given her the wrong information ? |
| 10 | But the English mystics and their followers give us the other side of the picture . |
| 11 | The speaker was an undoubted first-rate man whose achievements make him the greatest British theoretical physicist since Maxwell and one of the great figures of twentieth-century culture . |
| 12 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 13 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 14 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 16 | He was n't in the sitting-room , so , interested in the house in spite of herself , she started to explore , his absence giving her the perfect right to do so . |
| 17 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 18 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 19 | Either he was smiling , or the gaunt hollows of his face gave him the daunting appearance of a smile . |
| 20 | Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night . |
| 21 | Our instructors taught us the correct names for the parts of the Topper . |
| 22 | The evening will be semi-business anyway , so your qualifications make you the best candidate . ’ |
| 23 | We plan our holidays to give you the maximum enjoyment . |
| 24 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |