Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 2 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 3 | Now , I laid into the JMP-1 for having but a single input on the front , with no means of connection to the back of the unit ; the TriAxis has the input to the rear , with no input on the front ! |
| 4 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 5 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 6 | … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) . |
| 7 | She says : ‘ I worked for the maddest of them all , a man who had given his secretary and his assistant ulcers . |
| 8 | I swayed between the two like a tightrope walker . ’ |
| 9 | Er , I saw between the sixteen to twenty year olds , there 's nowhere in the town where they can go and meet very easily , other than the pubs , this causes trouble . |
| 10 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 11 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 12 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 13 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 14 | I went in the first on the right and closed the door . |
| 15 | I drifted after the three of them to watch the runners come out for the third race and was n't far behind them when they walked right down to the rails to see the contest from the closest possible quarters . |
| 16 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 17 | Yes I leave on the eleventh of March so can we have it on the eight of March ? |
| 18 | Tonight 's programme has been made with the benefit of time and I think with the best of intentions . |
| 19 | I think of the visiting in a Scottish west coast crofting community described by Alasdair MacLean in Night Falls on Ardnamurchan . |
| 20 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
| 21 | Well I mean I quote from the nineteenth of November letter from the Parish Council , The Parish Council fully support the environmental recommendations from the District Council . |
| 22 | I quote from the sixth of July nineteen eighty seven . |
| 23 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
| 24 | As I slept off the last of my baggitis , sweet visions of castles , fountains and autumn leaves drifted through my dreams . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 26 | Figure 1.1 represents what I see as the equivalent for teaching RE and shows how these qualities are related to the attitude of five-fold respect discussed above ( p. 2 ) . |
| 27 | So if you 're going to employ an assassin and you 're a mean skinflint you pick on the lowest of the low to do your dirty work . |
| 28 | Yes , well she goes on the second of July , she has a day at school . |
| 29 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 30 | After outlining the origins of the art in Ancient Rome , she concentrates on the greatest of all the manufactories , those of Grand Ducal Florence . |