Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said to her , ‘ I know what you are going to say — you 're going to tell me that the mother of X committed suicide . ’ |
| 2 | After all , there is nothing that the press like more than a good fairy-tale ! |
| 3 | Oh a couple of twelves get me right the way round , one , two , three , four , five , six , one , two |
| 4 | God knows , I ate nothing half the time . |
| 5 | bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained |
| 6 | the park Then you love me half the night |
| 7 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 8 | In this bleak kitchen it 's the dead of night , but around me half the block will not yet be asleep . |
| 9 | Well , mind you June do n't know what the hell she 's ringing me half the time , because she bloody rings and , half of time it 's |
| 10 | He loaned me half the cash to buy it , so he wanted the money back . ’ |
| 11 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 12 | I 'll fill that in as well , Northern Hydraulics because I 'm paying er hydraulics prices for er seals when we can get them half the price off them . |
| 13 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
| 14 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 15 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 16 | I know , we used to drive round in them half the time ! |
| 17 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 18 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 19 | we 've actually had trout in the freezer for ages , and not used them fresh the day I got them I 'll use it and |
| 20 | At the church , me poor sister was near to swoonin' , our mum 'ad to give 'er smellin'-salts , with 'is reverend the vicar sayin' 'e 'd 'ave to cancel the ceremony . |
| 21 | at one hundred and thirty pounds , one forty in the back row , one fifty one sixty one seventy one eighty one ninety two hundred two hundred pounds in the back row , at two hundred pounds , two twenty to my right the lady 's bid , sir two forty two forty , going on ? |
| 22 | In any case , ’ she warmed to her subject , ‘ we ca n't afford to feed ourselves half the time let alone a stranger , what can you be thinking about ? |
| 23 | If I misrepresent the subject of war ( but not the concern with love and loss ) in Housman 's poetry I can even fuel my own paranoia about the condition of our planet . |
| 24 | Was I even , at times , uncharacteristically gauche as I jig-a-jigged the parquet ? |
| 25 | oche I all the time |
| 26 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 27 | We do n't always want to be testing ourselves all the time , do we ? |
| 28 | I was behind 'er all the time . ’ |
| 29 | You never thought of O as someone who was with people or who went home with people , and he never seemed to be looking round for someone all the time , which is how most of us must have appeared . |
| 30 | ‘ But you were with someone all the time ? |