Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 2 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing about the local connection yet but I 've had a word with the boys at Penzance . |
| 4 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 5 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 6 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 7 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 8 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 9 | Workers in nuclear and radiographic installations would then not need radiation badges , or monitoring instruments to warn them of the unseen danger all around . |
| 10 | Now er reminded me of the next thing really I ought to have got on to . |
| 11 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 12 | I 'll see you , phone you one day in the week , I saw the post lady coming up the drive and I said to Henry who 's that , he threw himself against the top window so there was indeed someone coming up the drive , tore into the dinning room , picked up his tennis ball , raced back to the window and wow , wow , wow , with his ball in his mouth , and I said Henry you 're really going to frightened off intruders with a ball in your mouth , I said . |
| 13 | The student positions himself with the right foot forward , and the body weight evenly distributed . |
| 14 | In the case of childbirth , which in the nineteenth century so often proved fatal , there was a certain disposition — at least among males — to believe that to relieve the pains of labour would be to interfere with what had been divinely preordained ; indeed the Bible could be quoted to this effect . |
| 15 | Ministers took a similarly careful line on the issue of interest rates [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38314 ] , noting that " those countries which in the future experience better than expected inflation performance may have a basis for an easing of monetary conditions and interest rates without jeopardizing the commitment to price stability and exchange rate objectives " . |
| 16 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 17 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 18 | The same is true , mutatis mutandis , of France , Switzerland and the Benelux countries , which in the 1958–71 period together absorbed another 2,000,000 foreign workers into their proletariat . |
| 19 | The Middle East in particular , with very low oil costs and large amounts of entrained gas , starts with an almost unbeatable comparative advantage in terms of its raw material costs , which in the petrochemical business typically are over half of the total cost picture . |
| 20 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 21 | ‘ Nobody from the chief executive down begrudges a single penny spent on health , safety and the environment , ’ said HSE group manager John Dobson . |
| 22 | Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards . |
| 23 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 24 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 25 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 26 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 28 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 29 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 30 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |