Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cliff was sheer , dropping down to secret rocky coves below them with the sea gently lapping white sand . |
| 2 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 3 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 4 | Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 6 | So unless er anyone has any direct questions for me from the meeting erm |
| 7 | We are including an extra pack of two coarse discs for you in the pack — worth £2.69 . |
| 8 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 9 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 10 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 11 | There were distinct advantages for me in the relationship . |
| 12 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
| 13 | The report did recommend that members be called upon to break off relations with Spain , but there were serious divisions among them about the efficacy of such measures . |
| 14 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 15 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 16 | We have encoded and used versions of them from the past we study . |
| 17 | The Convento de San Esteban is a magnificent plateresque sixteenth-century edifice on the Plaza Santo Domingo , approached by a small arched bridge which provides an impressive forefront to that immense carved façade , with the arcaded convent standing at right angles to it on the right . |
| 18 | Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home . |
| 19 | She had brief glimpses of him in the wings , his head unpleasantly close to the head of a girl called Mona who was playing Prince Charming . |
| 20 | Much of this he was to achieve , though he received little thanks for it from the Parisians who , in large part , remained hostile to the regime . |
| 21 | They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut . |
| 22 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 23 | One firm in particular had proved a very bad loser , making certain hostile comments about him to the Press . |
| 24 | The Commission must copy a notification to the relevant authorities in the member states and provided that it is complete , immediately publish brief details of it in the Official Journal . |
| 25 | Simply serve them in tiny bowls or hors-d'oeuvre dishes , or pile up little mounds of them beside the sliced lamb and beef . |
| 26 | In these brief forays of ours into the territory of Old Testament storytelling we do not , in fact , have to wait until Jonah to find the theology of Joshua 6 again under question . |
| 27 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 28 | ‘ Being there , where Paul wrote home such humorous , hopeful and reassuring letters to us in the middle of all the trouble , will mean something very special to us . ’ |
| 29 | Two of the black lacquer cabinets had been opened and china lay in little piles outside them on the carpet . |
| 30 | Acting bravely and with initiative during the mutiny , he is oppressed with shame when he remembers certain arrogant and cruel actions of his against the crew . |