Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
| 2 | Instead , he laughed aloud and beat them all the fiercer . |
| 3 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 4 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 5 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 6 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 7 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 8 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 9 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 10 | And for people for whom only the best will do , the magnificent Eclipse has everything … from hob light to an automatic oven timer . |
| 11 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 12 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |
| 13 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 14 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 15 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 16 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 17 | ‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose . |
| 18 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 19 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 20 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 21 | ‘ Ancient person , ’ [ began Gooseneck ] , ‘ for whom I All the flattering youth defy , Long be it ere thou grow old , Aching , shaking , crazy , cold ; But still continue as thou art , Ancient person of my heart . |
| 22 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 23 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 24 | Er , I just the main point . |
| 25 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 26 | ‘ But why am I always the last to know ? ’ |
| 27 | So it , this has some things in the picture gain importance , although I still the black and white ones . |
| 28 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 29 | Am I simply the latest victim in a long line ? ’ |
| 30 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |