Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 2 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 3 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 4 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 5 | But there is no life , if you dare not test yourself , if you dare not feel free to live it to the full . |
| 6 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 7 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 8 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 9 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 10 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 11 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 12 | Anyone familiar with the clear , highly distinctive aroma of geranium would know that one would need to be totally anosmic to confuse it with the soft , deep notes of sandalwood . |
| 13 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 14 | She thrust her chin upward in mock anger , delighted to have him on the defensive . |
| 15 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 16 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 17 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 18 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 19 | The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs . |
| 20 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 21 | There was a Captain Dennis Babbage whose hobby was Bradshaw , the famous railway time-table ; and anyone who had a journey to make was welcome to consult him about the easiest ( or most interestingly complicated ) route to take . |
| 22 | Are you supposed to press them at the same time ? |
| 23 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 24 | I always said if I won the 100 it would be very hard to beat me in the 200 . |
| 25 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 26 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 27 | I would be glad to exchange them for the same face value as the increasingly worthless and derisory folding stuff . |
| 28 | It is helpful to discuss it with the main witnesses , first off ; brings it alive , if you know what I mean . ’ |
| 29 | The hairs are long to protect it against the bitter alpine nights . |
| 30 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |