Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 2 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 3 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 4 | He had a second book , started at the outset of the Falklands War , which though still in the form of a diary , was more of a journal . |
| 5 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 6 | The latter — that is , those living with spouses and with younger people — are most likely to obtain support from those living with them and little from the state . |
| 7 | With fewer defence contracts around , American aircraft manufacturers such as Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas have been pressing Boeing to redirect subcontracting work towards them and away from the Japanese . |
| 8 | The serjeant rubbed his chin and looked at them and then at the friar , sucking in air noisily through his blackened teeth . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've read most of them and am of the opinion they do the author a disservice . |
| 10 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 11 | Now the presidency and his executive branch became a political directorate , which increasingly aggregated political power within itself and away from the legislature . |
| 12 | But a causal circumstance , as specified earlier ( p.46 ) , most certainly does not include all of the causal history of itself and hence of the effect . |
| 13 | However , the latest amendments to the Building Regulations require much higher standards of insulation than ever before and have also belatedly recognised the problems that over-insulation can cause as far as condensation is concerned — both inside the house itself and also within the building 's structure . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the month the military launched a series of air attacks on LTTE positions in Jaffna town itself and elsewhere on the peninsula . |
| 15 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 16 | There is also infiltration of polymorphonuclear and mononuclear cells in the wound and sometimes in the plug itself and interestingly along the blood vessel near the wound ( Wester et al , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 18 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 19 | Others were more conveniently sited for them but inconveniently for the Company , as a condition of selling land for the railway . |
| 20 | If this is something that maybe in the future , then you ca n't use a Mortgage Master for a , for a future house purchase , you can use the P S P . |
| 21 | The energy generated from running upstairs and laughing with Stella in distant Florence flowed over into the impulse to ring , in turn , her own mother : a pointless act , but one that nevertheless in the context seemed pious , necessary , propitiatory , and a gesture at least towards her sister , who bore so much heavier a filial burden , who would ( in theory at least ) be pleased to know that Liz had remembered . |
| 22 | The normal form never has one IF directly as the argument of another . |
| 23 | And erm if you wanted to hear about Chelmsford Cathedral when Estelle who was a humorous and eighty something but still on the ball she 'll tell you about the |
| 24 | No doubt fans will flock to that one as well in the hope of seeing who can force Eubank to produce his best . |
| 25 | She excused herself when halfway through the meal , and made for the ladies room . |
| 26 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 27 | The only person there was Gran , and she was asleep , but it would be better to be with her than downstairs in the kitchen , alone . |
| 28 | I did n't know him and only at the end did he wish to know me . ’ |
| 29 | She thought it was the squirrel again , but then realised it was something moving jerkily in the hollow of a decayed tree below her and close to the beech . |
| 30 | NEWRY — Errol Lutton won his first international caps in Poland , and it is not only a boost to him but also to the club as they bid to match the big boys . |