Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that 's why you were suddenly in favour of my investing in the Rose Bowl . |
| 2 | Put my eight in the box and she went to go and grab it . |
| 3 | I put my eight in the box , look ! |
| 4 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 5 | two hundred to my right at the back , at two hundred pounds thank you , six one O at two hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 7 | I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers . |
| 8 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 9 | There was a tearing sound and I bared my all to the world . |
| 10 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 11 | I got my I got my vertical from the one at Newark and the venetian blind centre . |
| 12 | In in fact one of my one of the pupils I am proposing to work with he 's one of her people who have contacted her and she 's she 's quite deliberately limiting the number of her days in the week she teaches to two . |
| 13 | ‘ This was my second visit to Lourdes but only my first with the Helen Leech pilgrimage . |
| 14 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 15 | ‘ My life is my own during the week . ’ |
| 16 | She says ; I have been out on my own during the day . |
| 17 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 18 | But I remembered her asking whether I did n't go crazy on my own at The Pightle . |
| 19 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 20 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 21 | If he was n't so attractive himself , ’ she continued , echoing some old thoughts of my own on the subject , ‘ who 'd give a damn ? |
| 22 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 23 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 24 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 25 | Alone in Paris , in a foreign city on the brink of winter , penniless , hungry , with not an item I could call my own except the clothes I stood up in . |
| 26 | Sometimes it 's a bit like a dream , walking on my own down the pavement with all these car lights flashing in my lace . |
| 27 | Although I work at weekends and evenings , a couple of days on my own with the kids works out just right . |
| 28 | I 've proved I can still hold my own with the best . ’ |
| 29 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 30 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |