Example sentences of "the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | You , you take up the normal I do n't tend to do this , but this is really the best way to do the shot . |
2 | But I almost owe it to the reborn me not to take that kind of shit from any man again . |
3 | the ineradicable sown-in-us |
4 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
5 | He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site . |
6 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
7 | Six weeks after the acute she came along with headaches , anxiety , depression and low-grade digestive symptoms . |
8 | The Ersatz they were asked to give , and gave , was of low quality . |
9 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |
10 | I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember . |
11 | He did the accidental I 'm sure , controversy . |
12 | However , in the search for wholeness one partner may choose and use the other to express a feared or unrecognized part of the self , and this , by definition , is unconscious : ‘ I love the unrecognized me in you ’ . |
13 | It 's worth mentioning that I asked a lot of people in Spain , when I was there , at the Spanish you know what they knew about it , and nobody did . |
14 | Anyway I suggested to Mrs Newton that this sort of thing did n't sound like the Froggy we all knew and loved because , with great respect , that sort of money would usually have gone only in one direction — to the publicans and bookies . |
15 | Adding his voice to the outcry against outlawing simple unauthorised entry into computers , Budley Salterton ( not his real name ) warned : ‘ It 's not the catch-all they ( the Law Commission ) hope for . |
16 | Probably just the right you know , run . |
17 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
18 | He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession . |
19 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
20 | Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard . |
21 | A lot of aggressive publicity and marketing surrounds funboard design , and for the uninitiated it is difficult to understand what is going on . |
22 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
23 | To the uninitiated it must seem absurd . |
24 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
25 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
26 | A a at precisely the point where one one would expect them to be in the position to be able to encroach on the rich they are actually this is , this is the promotion of the rich peasant economy . |
27 | Thus , for a particular segment of the rich it was less wealth per se which was of importance , than wealth displayed as a conspicuous distance from the world of practical necessity . |
28 | For the middle class and the rich it was increasingly tourism , essentially the product of the railway , the steamship and ( in so far as that invention of our period , the picture postcard , is still an essential part of it ) of the new scale and speed of postal communications . |
29 | He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away . |
30 | To the rich he said : |