Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that she and her book would have nothing complete to say to the age until her grandfather 's misspent energy had been redeemed inside herself . |
| 2 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 3 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 4 | DULLARD COUNTRY Joes from Canada who 've got nothing fresh to add to the runnings — just a stinky , laboured , rock-heavy thing . |
| 5 | ‘ It leaves me free to concentrate on the show and anyway , I 'm not there just to play my favourite records . |
| 6 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 7 | Am I right to write to the others saying I or should |
| 8 | What am I supposed to do in the meantime ? ’ |
| 9 | I thought you were definitely gon na show me up today and say , how the hell am I supposed to get into the garage ? |
| 10 | Not only was I unable to help with the work , I could n't even care for the family 's tools . |
| 11 | Were I just looking at the DOS version , I 'd be pretty happy with that , but it 's with the Windows version that major flaws appear . |
| 12 | Nothing untoward moved in the landscape . |
| 13 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 14 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 15 | If we say , There 's somebody suspicious knocking about the flats , or , There 's a person on such a walk doing something we think 's a little bit er mysterious , then they 'll sen they 'll send somebody round as quickly as they can . |
| 16 | Some African tribes leave their elderly to die by the rivers and waterholes so that the wild animals will eat them . |
| 17 | Across ashen , unredeemable scenes , Shakespeare 's words resound with redoubled force and humanity ; they sound almost ironic , in their fruitless reaching towards the images and emotions which have drained away from a soulless , monochrome universe . |
| 18 | This visitor is himself unable to escape from the sexuality found to permeate even the most intense religious belief . |
| 19 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 20 | we have our ups and downs getting money … its difficult to plan for the future like motor racing when you do n't know how much money is coming in |
| 21 | its external goes in the back far superb |
| 22 | In Marseilles he was laid up with his familiar fever ; at the Iles d'Hyères , near Nice , he found himself obliged to dance with the proprietress of a rough tavern to avoid embarrassing enquiries about his identity , while as always when the Stuarts set sail , the weather was appalling . |
| 23 | It 's alright for you regulars who know what it 's like , but imagine somebody new coming to the club . |
| 24 | The chilling photograph of the moment of her capsize appears in the book , and still haunts anyone who has contact with the sea or with the lifeboat service . |
| 25 | Maria first demonstrated her literary bent at the age of fifteen , jousting in verse with Joseph Jekyll [ q.v. ] , a noted wit twice her age ; her ‘ Inscription on an Hermitage ’ , written during a stay in the Caribbean in 1788 , displays real poetical maturity . |
| 26 | And they put back nutrients into the soil , too , both directly and by the decomposition of their dead remains through the agency of creatures such as worms , bacteria , fungi , moulds and so on . |
| 27 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 28 | Thornton , 32 , was constantly frustrated by Eubank 's weird and unorthodox antics but he had nothing exceptional to throw into the pot . |
| 29 | By 1973 , the overseas offices accounted for more than half of the fee income , but the firm found itself poorly represented in the USA with only two of its nine branches established there . |
| 30 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |