Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made . |
| 2 | All MBDC meetings are sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 3 | All MBDC meetings were sponsored and the Council is grateful for the ready support it has received from sponsors of individual meetings . |
| 4 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 5 | Pilade was asleep , leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for . |
| 6 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 7 | It was something of a shock to him to realize how fond of the little boy he had become . |
| 8 | Indeed , the exact opposite was in his mind , but he was afraid of the further rejection she would face in any hamlet or village for miles around . |
| 9 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 10 | She knew he had changed , that he was a man of thirty-two now , a successful man , a powerful man — probably quite different from the young man she had known . |
| 11 | How is homoeopathy different from the orthodox medicine I can get from my GP ? |
| 12 | Near the bus and railway station stood a Great Southern Hotel , not too different from the luxurious mansion I had known in Killarney . |
| 13 | He look different from the last time me and him were mates cos he 's got older . |
| 14 | In fact James Morris looked very different from the last time he had seen him , two years previously . |
| 15 | The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be . |
| 16 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 17 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 18 | However , although dependency and disability are high within the institutional population we must remember that a minority of the elderly have such problems . |
| 19 | At present I am only interested in the extra amount it costs to take the car out on the road . |
| 20 | He is also carrying an armful of her books and papers , and fielding an orange which rolls free from the overloaded briefcase she is cradling to herself . |
| 21 | He indicated Danny , Belinda , sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused , and the others , who were patiently waiting . |
| 22 | So also , analogous to the bilinear form we have the functional bilinear in the function x(t) . |
| 23 | If they were n't acceptable to the local council I was n't going to buy . ’ |
| 24 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 25 | But Ian McGeechan , the coach , will be dependent on the successful work he did on tour in Australia to get his players ready for tomorrow 's game against France at Parc des Princes . |
| 26 | Waugh heard BBC Third Programme discussions about himself , a form of torture he came to feel peculiarly representative of the modern age he despised . |
| 27 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 28 | Although disapproval of sacred dramas continued to be vehemently expressed , as , for instance , by Gerhoh of Reichersburg ( 1039–1169 ) who , according to Kolve ( 1966 ) , warned that he who portrays the rage of Herod is guilty of the very vice he portrays ( a deep-seated objection not entirely eradicated today ) , anxiety about its blasphemous nature was dispelled as more people came to regard it as merely a ‘ game ’ rather than as a sacrilegious act . |
| 29 | He rejected them both in favour of joining the family firm , but he was vague about the specific role he would play . |
| 30 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |