Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 2 | On my right foot the pad of my big toe and the tips of all my other toes were four thickness burns . |
| 3 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 4 | Disappointment ! dash not from my trembling hand the bowl which almost touches my lips . |
| 5 | I am certain that the transition could only have been made possible through the dedication ( If those Mr Chips at Halton , who gave their entire working life to the charges of all their students , Men like A.C.K. Kermode , Whittaker , Latimer Needham , Pillars , B.A. Smith and last but not least my dear friend the maths master . |
| 6 | My interest in sport helped and apart from three days jankers ( for being late back from weekend pass — could not afford a taxi from Wendover station ) , this vexed me as many of my Entry had zero days but many , like my dear friend the late Roddy Morgan , did more than 300 days . |
| 7 | In conversation with my French boyfriend the other day , he said , ‘ I am being quite Fred with you ’ . |
| 8 | The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues . |
| 9 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 10 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 11 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 12 | In my old age the very idea of coping with agents , tenants , taxes , VAT , the Ministry of Agriculture , local authorities and demands all along the line , appals . |
| 13 | ‘ By 1988 , having joined the show in 1986 , I was desperately missing gigging , and I was asked to put my old band The Y-Fronts back together for a charity performance . |
| 14 | Further to the very unsatisfactory replies that the Minister has given not only to me but , earlier , to my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Pollok ( Mr. Dunnachie ) and for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , may I ask whether the Government consider the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to be illegal ? |
| 15 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 16 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 17 | The way in which the Government have brought the north and south together was well spelt out by my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Rutherglen ( Mr. McAvoy ) , for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) and for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) . |
| 18 | I commend my hon. Friends the Members for Rugby and Kennilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) for their overall appraisal of our policy . |
| 19 | Our Bills are all of a part with those objectives praised by my hon. Friends the Members for Elmet ( Mr. Batiste ) and for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) — the drive to get better standards back into our education system , to increase yet further the participation of our young people , and to match the quality of education and training provided by our competitors abroad . |
| 20 | My hon. Friends the Members for Spelthorne ( Mr. Wilshire ) and for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) , among others , welcomed the capping provisions to protect residents of profligate councils . |
| 21 | Like my hon. Friends the Members for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) and for Leeds , North-West , I must now advise the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that a revaluation would be bad news for Wales . |
| 22 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 23 | I am pleased to see so many of my colleagues here , including my hon. Friends the Members for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) and for Derbyshire , West ( Mr. McLoughlin ) and several other colleagues . |
| 24 | We have had such contributions from my hon. Friends the Members for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) and for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) . |
| 25 | We also heard fine contributions from my hon. Friends the Members for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) , who has a quarry of good stories from the London borough of Wandsworth . |
| 26 | My hon. Friends the Members for Croydon , North-West and for Ealing , North ( Mr. Greenway ) have referred to a vocational/non-vocational divide within our proposals . |
| 27 | By agreeing to their inclusion in the Bill the Secretary of State has responded to the anxieties of my hon. Friends the Members for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) and for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) , and of South Glamorgan county council , Cardiff city council and many other bodies . |
| 28 | He and my hon. Friends the Members for Pudsey ( Sir G. |
| 29 | I support my hon. Friends the Members for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) and for Halifax ( Mrs. Mahon ) in their general comments on the broad area of policy on residential and community care . |
| 30 | I congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Tooting ( Mr. Cox ) and for Newcastle-under-Lyme ( Mrs. |