Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 2 | There 's nothing the right colour at all . |
| 3 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 4 | He did nearly nothing the whole game . |
| 5 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 6 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 7 | As one planner told SAVE , ‘ A few letters from potential purchasers asking about a neglected listed building gives me the necessary ammunition to persuade my council to serve a Repairs Notice on the owner . ’ |
| 8 | This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ . |
| 9 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 10 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 11 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 12 | For me the European theatre is where it 's at — a physical art rooted in the circus . ’ |
| 13 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 14 | ‘ Give me the chief cryptographer , ’ he said softly , as a woman answered the call . |
| 15 | The waiter said no all off oh send me the usual toast . |
| 16 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 17 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 18 | me the actual thing of what we 're saying . |
| 19 | ‘ In that case , why give me the no-involvement line ? ’ she demanded . |
| 20 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 21 | If I say , Well you 'll give me the only ever give me the negative version of the square root , so if I give you sixteen , you give me minus four . |
| 22 | This gives me the terrible dichotomy of knowing that during the stalking season I would dearly love to ruin the day for the fat boors crawling all over Scotland , puffing in their tweeds , but I would hate to disturb Ted and his colleagues at their job , which pays their grocery bills and is their only source of income . |
| 23 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not frightened of dying because Dr Child gave me the right attitude : Think of the future and be hopeful . ’ |
| 25 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 26 | Go on , God damn it , and give me the right stuff this time around . " |
| 27 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
| 28 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 29 | Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken . |
| 30 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |