Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires .
2 Their lease runs out at the end of , I think it 's April , and we are going to receive an approach from Devon County Council , that we become involved in any extension of that as a council , and that perhaps we offer them rather more in the way of guidance , which I think , is their main need .
3 What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation .
4 Mrs Rundle kissed them wetly one after the other .
5 Right , I do n't , I mu , I must say I do n't think I would of won without Karen , she got most of them , I was writing them down most of the time .
6 Helen 's told me so much about the place .
7 Thank , thank you Mr Mayor I I 'll be very brief because I think that there have been a number of very good points made from all all sides of the chamber tonight and I think really er councillor er touched on the thing that that worried me so much about the creation of ghettos .
8 I always have a pile of small , brightly coloured bricks on my desk , because they teach me so much about the children who sit in front of them .
9 You 've helped me so much in the past , and now that I 'm more helpless than ever , you 're going away ! ’
10 He held me so high in the air that my whole body trembled .
11 Commenting on the recent claim by junior schools minister Michael Fallon that " governors , not councils , now run our schools " , Ann Holt writes " My own experience as a governor , and as one who meets other governors , makes me less sure about the feasibility or desirability of Mr Fallon 's ambitions .
12 And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now .
13 recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it !
14 Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life .
15 James constantly concerned about the set , and me constantly concerned over the script .
16 They also argued that the normalization of such images by SM groups acclimatized people to brutality and made them less percipient about the advent of ‘ real fascism ’ .
17 On the conscious level , sexuality was to me only one of the responsibilities of adulthood : as far the sexual act itself was concerned , I simply did n't want to know , as a child who is exposed to sexual information at an age when she/he feels incapable of absorbing it will not want to know .
18 And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way .
19 Their clothes were expensive and had cigarette burns in them , their licenses had been taken away from them , their faces showed signs of what is known as the ruins of great beauty , they were always in various stages of depression ; and , being the way they were , this had the effect of making them exceedingly witty with the scaffold humour that Lydia preferred .
20 I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession .
21 I though that about the poll tax anyhow .
22 ‘ Am I too late for the rubbish ? ’ called the woman .
23 Mandatory penalties are very much the exception , and although there are statutory maximum penalties for particular offences , most of these were devised so long ago , and in such different circumstances , as to render them largely irrelevant for the control of judicial sentencing today .
24 He actually blows slime bubbles that trap the grubs and bear them ever upward towards the cavern roof .
25 Some of them still visible in the morning .
26 I if you get them off some of the mosses up our way , then they boil away far quicker but the other thing I think is mainly variety .
27 It 's meant to make them more mobile in the mud and it 's a far cry from the rigours of the scrum .
28 Amongst all the speakers we 've had here this week , I do n't think that there 's any of them more supportive to the trade union movement than the Very Reverend David Jenkins .
29 In those circumstances , it was thought right to reduce some of the activities of the RNR and to make them more relevant to the future .
30 This makes them more susceptible to the effects of Waaagh energy .
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