Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 2 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 3 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 4 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 5 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 6 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 7 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 8 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 9 | My flocks of thought have dispersed and become lost for I have not marked them with the branding iron of the images . |
| 10 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 11 | Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station . |
| 12 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 13 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 14 | The weatherman 's just lost it off the long-range radar screen . |
| 15 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 16 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 17 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 18 | The American critics quickly despatched it to the second-string scrapheap , but young cinema fans were n't put off . |
| 19 | One of my boyfriends once described you as the Rossetti maiden . ’ |
| 20 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |
| 21 | To aid her in such a duty Nature has wisely provided her with the sexual appetite slightly developed ’ . |
| 22 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
| 23 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 24 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 25 | Can you hold it here so it 's security keys and I have n't turned it round the other way . |
| 26 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 27 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 28 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 30 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |