Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would then stimulate other institutions to change their rates too , in order for them to remain competitive with the clearing banks . |
| 2 | Ronan was entertaining them ; he was a good mimic and this time he was doing a fussy Brother in the school trying to get everyone to sit still in the big hall for a lecture . |
| 3 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 4 | I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it . |
| 5 | By half-term I weighed seven stone nine pounds , and I suspect it was only then that I became weight-conscious in the literal sense . |
| 6 | As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine . |
| 7 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 8 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 9 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 10 | So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby . |
| 11 | Well I 've never got particularly involved with this school , I got involved with the other schools |
| 12 | But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing . |
| 13 | I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue , he wrote . |
| 14 | ‘ I grow tired of the reasonable approach , ’ Legion said . |
| 15 | Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform . |
| 16 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 17 | During my last visit , on a warm spring day , I climbed high into the remote vastness of Foinaven and Arkle , to a tiny blue speck of water , probably unfished for decades . |
| 18 | No sooner have I got excited about the cool sensation in my throat than the can is empty . |
| 19 | If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! ! |
| 20 | ‘ I get sick of the same old routine day after day . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose marvellous to the wrong things ! |
| 22 | I feel sorry for the poor person who has to translate it . |
| 23 | I feel sorry for the poor man ! |
| 24 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 25 | I feel sorry for the French Commando being carried by the two German soldiers . |
| 26 | I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo … |
| 27 | ‘ I have had trouble in sleeping the past three nights but I felt good until the 20 miles mark . |
| 28 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 29 | He stuck hi and he get that wound up towards the end I felt sorry for the poor little soul ! |
| 30 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |