Example sentences of "[art] [pron] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 2 | ‘ The one about the poor African boy . ’ |
| 3 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 4 | The one with the golden curly hair is handing from a little finger hold on an impending wall . |
| 5 | In some cases , however , the information on contacts may be slender , particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed , and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips , often abortive , to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie — ‘ … the one with the long blonde hair , pink mini-skirt , and acne ’ . |
| 6 | To the player , the difference between the two is that the 80–20 is the brighter-sounding string , and — I think , anyway — the one with the fuller bottom sound . |
| 7 | In particular , if all assets were equally risky , then everyone would choose the one with the greatest expected payoff to holding it . |
| 8 | Not the one in which he aimed highest , but the one in which his inspiration is most fully sustained ; the one with the strongest dramatic thrust ; the only one in which you truly care about the fate of the characters . |
| 9 | He 's got the one with the teeny weeny arms . |
| 10 | There 's the one with the flash waterproof stretch . |
| 11 | Last year saw the one of the biggest international fields ever at the Bramham Three Day Event with the overseas challenge being repelled by Virginia Leng on Welton Chit Chat . |
| 12 | Erm er the one of the little poky dibbers . |
| 13 | There is a state-of-the-art cardiac resuscitation unit , much better than the one on the general medical wards . |
| 14 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) noted that A. ingolfiana and A. norvegica were very similar and could only be distinguished from one another by the following characters ; the shape of the genital plate which has two branches in A. ingolfiana but in A. norvegica the abradial branch — the one on the ventral interradial side of the genital plate is reduced and broadened , while the radial shields which are more rounded on the proximal abradial — outer side in A. ingolfiana while in A. norvegica this side is more angular . |
| 15 | Kegs in the pub cellar , the one on the left connected for serving . |
| 16 | He 'll be the one in the funny coloured shirt ! |
| 17 | The prettiest was the one in the pale pink jacket , who never looked around her as she worked . |
| 18 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 19 | They represented the spectrum of Christian conviction , East and West — though there was no one from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when it opened , and two Russian Orthodox clergy came shortly after the Council had got under way . |