Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 2 | The Cloud of Unknowing is , I have to admit , my favourite of the four mystical works anthologised here . |
| 3 | is my favourite of the harder Welsh cheeses . |
| 4 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 5 | Every day for three weeks I 'd be taken from my cell in the old colonial prison , from the cool , noisome darkness into the harsh day of Danu . |
| 6 | Today I made a break with habit and tradition , and took my lunch at the New Born Restaurant . |
| 7 | I am sorry that I so rattled the Prime Minister with my question at the previous Prime Minister 's Question Time that he has not come to the House today . |
| 8 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 9 | I let my head fall to one side , my cheek against the cool damp sand . |
| 10 | But I still have twinges of uncertainty about my place within the wider Black women 's struggle . |
| 11 | I plucked one of the torches from the wall and crouched down , wrinkling my nose at the mild sour odour . |
| 12 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
| 13 | The season of 1983 began with another skirmish with Frank Dick over my non-selection for the European Indoor Championships . |
| 14 | ‘ I swear on my honour and conscience , my loyalty to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Whilst I have already made clear my preference for the breakaway top eye float , there are times when the simpler tube type drifter works better . |
| 16 | I hauled my luggage to the nearest small hotel and took a cheap room . |
| 17 | I referred in my letter to the human spiritual depression that is part and parcel of such closures — and indeed of all job losses and business failures . |
| 18 | If I could get my hand on the dirty little tyke who wrote it — ‘ |
| 19 | The judge said : ‘ I regard it as my duty at the earliest possible moment to order the discharge from prison of Lord Blandford . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , looking over my shoulder at the open front door . |
| 21 | Joe put his great strong hand on my shoulder in the gentlest possible way . |
| 22 | I walk slowly through the tunnel beneath the line , one of a dozen returning commuters , cross over the road with ten of them , make my way through the gnarled little streets beyond the redundant town hall with eight of the ten , and begin to climb the scarp of the South London hills with the remaining five . |
| 23 | I threaded my way between the various broken churches , towers and columns to the entrance-exhibition where posters announced that fibreglass imitations of the stone carvings were soon to be set up outside . |
| 24 | Little did I realise that I would end my ministerial career by spending much of my time on the Welsh Grand Committee . |
| 25 | I gripped the telephone tightly and looked at my face in the little oblong mirror of the kiosk and could not , for a moment , think of a single thing to say . |
| 26 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 27 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 28 | In July 1878 , though , the Bureau of Indian Affairs assumed responsibility for the Nez Perce , and transferred them south to the parched 7000-acre Quapaw Reservation in Kansas Territory . |
| 29 | Rumours of a row between Graham and Merson are circulating , and that will only damage still further the Gunners ' cause after two shock defeats leaves them bottom of the new Premier League . |
| 30 | The fact that radicals both inside and outside parliament were often divided among themselves and had no uniform political views or remedies was emphasized by their ineffectiveness in the Economic Advisory Committee in the 1930s . |