Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 2 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 3 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 4 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 5 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 6 | Of course I agree with the hon. Gentleman about the level of violence during the past two or three months . |
| 7 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 8 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 9 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 10 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 11 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 12 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 13 | In a later chapter I refer to the modern notions of witchcraft and satanism which receive such wide publicity today . |
| 14 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 15 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 16 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 17 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 18 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 19 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 20 | When it began to grow dark I noticed through the little connecting window that he did n't put his light on ; this alarmed me , somehow . |
| 21 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 22 | This was the thinking which lay behind the Bonnefous Plan , named after Edward Bonnefous , who was the main architect in the Council of Europe for a European Transport Authority linked to the Council . |
| 23 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 24 | The housing stock which remains with the local authority tends to be less attractive than what is sold off , and much of it is less suitable for elderly people whose needs are for low-cost , good quality housing with ground-floor access in a safe and secure neighbourhood and close to good social support networks . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most serious defect of the current representative model of English politics though is that it disenfranchises , in a double sense , the broader electorate which falls outside the established consensus . |
| 26 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |
| 27 | More than 40 antique and warbird aircraft flew in for the auction which coincided with the National Championship Air Races . |
| 28 | Posteriorly it emits a recurrent nerve which extends along the mid-dorsal line of the oesophagus and , passing just beneath the brain , expands a short distance behind the latter into a hypocerebral gang/ion . |
| 29 | At the same time he unveiled a radical economic programme which called for the rapid transition to a market economy , and the " liquidation of inertia and conservatism " in the state bureaucracy . |
| 30 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |