Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
2 | They impress me less in the beautiful central Andante in C minor : it needs expressive playing which should be poignant without overstepping the bounds of musical propriety that Mozart set himself , and here it sounds merely pleasing . |
3 | I always liked them especially after the celebrated own goal incident back in 1992 . |
4 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
5 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
6 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
7 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
8 | The gentlemen-aristocratic nature of angels with guns is defined by their elegant dress , which relates them directly to the ruling viceregal aristocracy . |
9 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
10 | There will be another person with you constantly during the session — one in whom you have confidence and who will be able to guide you gently into the appropriate altered state of mind . |
11 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
12 | Thank you also for the many beautiful tributes and the donations sent for the Cynthia Spencer Unit . |
13 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
14 | Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography . |
15 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |
16 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
17 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
18 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
19 | See me now in the top ten . |
20 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
21 | Chance also throws him together with the itinerant bible-selling woman who was outraged by the hooligans of ‘ our town ’ and whom Stepan now , just once , calls his ‘ saviour ’ ( spasitelnitsa ) . |
22 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
23 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
24 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
25 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
26 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
27 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
28 | But the man who sat with her now in the huge heated conservatory that overlooked the gently foaming waters of the bay , dotted here and there with the lights of bobbing buoys , seemed relaxed and clearly in his element . |
29 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
30 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |