Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 2 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 3 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 4 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 5 | Where sharp edges and light cut into them the pointed back end of the brush was used to draw through them . |
| 6 | She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use . |
| 7 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 8 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 9 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 10 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 11 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 12 | Even Ceauşescu 's critics inside the Communist Party revealed how strong a hold over them the anti-agricultural ideology of Marxism possessed . |
| 13 | Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource . |
| 14 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 15 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 16 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 17 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 18 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 19 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 20 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |
| 21 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 22 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 23 | special name for it the square root . |
| 24 | Very little was found of either body , but Winnie was so loved that we arranged a remembrance service for her the following Sunday . |
| 25 | MARK Thatcher was facing a big tax increase last night after his the Swiss-based bosses reportedly ended his £80,000 contract six months early . |
| 26 | I mean there were four or five knocking on door of er a friend of mine the other day , who said y They were they were under the age of ten . |
| 27 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , surely you did n't fall for all that nonsense of his the other night ? |
| 28 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 29 | She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year . |
| 30 | At the outset of the hearing of the appeal , both the mother and the local authority applied for leave to put in evidence before us the Official Solicitor 's report . |