Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with the phone number of the vicar of All Saints , I determined to find out all I could about the mysterious stone . |
| 2 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 3 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 4 | To this end I have already started talking to as many people as I can in the local area , with some good response , but now wish to approach a wider audience — hence the appeal to you . |
| 5 | She may be ecstatic and radiant ; she may on the other hand feel tired and depressed . |
| 6 | She made her way as best she could along the overgrown path , following the house wall . |
| 7 | She ran as hard as she could across the muddy field , across the rickety bridge , and finally collapsed beyond the line of oaks where the stream curved round to mark the boundary of the colonel 's property . |
| 8 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 9 | For one awful moment , she thought she had persuaded her , then , with a cry of triumph , Rose hurled the ring as far as she could into the surrounding darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't say that , ’ denied Isabel quickly , clinging to her dignity as best she could under the growing amusement in her tormentor 's expression . |
| 11 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
| 12 | You should try to read as much as you can of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists ; Shakespeare , Marlowe and Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Tourneur , Webster , Middleton . |
| 13 | The trick is to get as much of the system installed as you can alongside the existing system so that you can change over all in one go . |
| 14 | And I 'd like to erm try and get you all to see what you can tell by simply observing the building , and I 'd like to concentrate if we may on the central part of the building , because there are a number of changes that have been made to that building erm which tell a story . |
| 15 | But we might on the other hand . |
| 16 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 17 | ‘ We got as close as we could to the shrimping rig , then Neil Henshaw and myself climbed aboard . |
| 18 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 19 | Claims may not include mesne profits as they may in the High Court , but are confined to claims for non-payment of rent . |
| 20 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 21 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 22 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 23 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |
| 24 | They slotted them in as best they could on the flat seat backs . |
| 25 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 26 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |
| 27 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 28 | We like the green landscape , the simple food , the reserved people , and our children do n't wilt in the heat as they would on the Amalfi coast . |
| 29 | Yet I repeat , as from April , as a result of the Government 's own legislation , they will in the overwhelming majority of these cases no longer possess the powers of constables and thus be able to follow through their investigations . |
| 30 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |