Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 2 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 3 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 4 | All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts . |
| 5 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 6 | There may be just one or two of us on the list who are still dreaming of Bremner , Giles & E Gray as a midfield trio . |
| 7 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 8 | Thirty five for an ordinary one you know everything to my spouse or most of it to the spouse with bits to the children er well r we usually run to about thirty five pounds . |
| 9 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 10 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 11 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 12 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 13 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 14 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 15 | He it was , that Monday , who plucked up courage to approach her , huffing and puffing around her with the slightly intimidating bonhomie of a young St Bernard . |
| 16 | A waiter smoothed his blue waistcoat and padded behind her to the round table where she always sat , next to the band and the dance floor . |
| 17 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 18 | ‘ The safest place in the world … and the world is where we 'll go for our honeymoon , because I 'm determined to get that travel bug out of you so you 'll stay safe and happy with me for the rest of our lives ! ’ |
| 19 | He then declared that he and those with him on the platform had pledged themselves to pay no fines and refused to be bound over , ‘ and we have authorised no one to pay these fines for us . |
| 20 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 21 | His eyelashes concealed his eyes in that secret , almost coy way he had and she was suddenly dreadfully frightened and angry with him at the same time . |
| 22 | Once was enough and most of us in the jockeys room agreed on that . |
| 23 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
| 24 | of the aggregate revenues received and receivable by it from the grant of the sub-licences . |
| 25 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 26 | But those of us in the recycling business must take issue with the statement from the British Plastics Federation that recycled plastics can not safely be used to package food . |
| 27 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |