Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 2 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 3 | It is also the budget that has taken notice of what the opposition have actually said we listened to you we have not persevered with our original thinking , we 've talked to the officers , we 've listened to what you 've said , we may not have done it with the greatest grace possible but . |
| 4 | I have placed you in the gravest danger . |
| 5 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 6 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 7 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 8 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 9 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |