Example sentences of "[adv] of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 2 | The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . |
| 3 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 4 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 5 | He was sitting at the table and staring ahead of him with a dark , brooding expression . |
| 6 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 7 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
| 8 | When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace . |
| 9 | They came , with a yell that crossed the fields ahead of them like a sourceless bellow out of the air . |
| 10 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 11 | Fat chance , she thought dismally , the prospect of two days and three nights without seeing him yawning ahead of her like the Grand Canyon . |
| 12 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 13 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 15 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 16 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
| 17 | So , you know we 've got a week now to maybe watch the T V tonight , watch the goals again tomorrow , enjoy what we 've just done , but erm some hard work ahead of it in the next few weeks . |
| 18 | The man leans against the gate two hundred yards ahead of us along the muddy path . |
| 19 | The tunnel entrance had grown big , the stone arch of it rearing up ahead of us like the open jaws of some petrified monster . |