Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 2 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |
| 3 | The Sixth is for me one of the greatest symphonies — and so seldom played in the past ! |
| 4 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 5 | My little mistress went from her father 's bedroom to mine , and back again , and looked after us both with the greatest care . |
| 6 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 7 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 8 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 9 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 10 | Three other qualities , less obvious , emerge when we look deeper ; all of them relevant to the principal theme of this book . |
| 11 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |
| 12 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 13 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 14 | The Bond collection contains 350 paintings , most of them Australian of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist vintage , Mr Cross said . |
| 15 | Managers were bombarded with 47 DHSS " priorities " , many of them contradictory but all of them subservient to the overriding need to cut costs . |
| 16 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 17 | £30 will seem an absurdly high sum to those of you liable for the full fee , and I would be happy to organise a pay-by-instalment system over the term , if this would make things easier . |
| 18 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |
| 19 | These features develop if the back-arc lithosphere behind the orogen is moving towards it relative to the underlying asthenosphere , since this convergence will probably lead to partial subduction of the back-arc lithosphere . |
| 20 | Somewhere behind them one of the younger squires had been pulled from his mount , and was sitting dizzily on the grass nursing a shocked head in his hands , too stunned to give any further trouble . |
| 21 | Four eighty against you now at five hundred five fifty five fifty seated , any more at five fifty , it 's against you all on the right now five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 22 | I often missed Constanza , but not being with them both at the same time was easier . |
| 23 | Above them one of the dark squares in the shadow moved aside . |
| 24 | Yes , I 'll come on that romantic stroll with you and watch the sunset as we did in Seville and I 'll remind you of it , just as you intend to remind me of it , and I 'll go with you all of the cruel way , Fernando , and when it 's all over I hope it gives you the satisfaction you crave . ’ |
| 25 | I look forward to working with you all in the coming year to ensure continued success . |
| 26 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 27 | What about the young captain in the Female Auxiliary Nursing Yeomanry ( FANY ) , with whom he spent weekends in Italy in the war , seeing with her some of the great Sienese paintings ? |
| 28 | They moved north to Scotland for an intensive period of training , and he found himself in command of a section of young volunteers , many of whom were to serve with him later in the Middle East . |
| 29 | His maximum brought with it one of the fastest race times ever seen in Swindon . |
| 30 | Under the 1980 Local Government Planning and Land Act the old loan sanction procedure disappeared , and with it some of the detailed controls . |