Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel . |
| 2 | Soft muslin cloth for the odd time I do n't want the work to get too hot . |
| 3 | For the above sub-heading I have deliberately copied from the title of a recent publication by Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert ( 1982 ) , for it is a manual offering guidance to teachers in their planning of projects for drama . |
| 4 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 5 | This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now . |
| 6 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 7 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
| 8 | All these big , strong , wise doctors were supposed to be in charge , they were supposed to be helping me-that was the only compensation for the humiliating procedure I 'd had to endure . |
| 9 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 10 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 11 | At the time of Chamberlain 's appointment he had written to his mother : ‘ I am pretty certain that I shall be left where I am which is what I wanted , for the only promotion I should care about would be the Exchequer itself which would never be given to a minister of only two years ' experience . |
| 12 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 13 | As for the representative level I would restructure the county championship . |
| 14 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 15 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 16 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 17 | For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet . |
| 18 | She stands close to the bed , and for the first time I see her naked : Agnes , the heroine of my novel . |
| 19 | For the first time I was free of obligation or responsibility . |
| 20 | Now , while as if bestowing some order of merit she fastened the beads round my neck , her face wore a motherly expression and for the first time I was with the Aunt Louise of my childhood . |
| 21 | For the first time I realized that Celia would know all about me from my letters to Aunt Louise . |
| 22 | It was a terrible disappointment , my heart sank as for the first time I detected a stiffness in Leo 's voice . |
| 23 | And for the first time I began to think of rewriting Peter Pan in a fresh and different way . |
| 24 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 25 | For the first time I realized the humiliating narrowness of mind with which one has to be equipped in time of war . |
| 26 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 27 | It was a chilly evening when I left London via Paddington for Bedford , and for the first time I saw signs of panic . |
| 28 | For the first time I saw not a vague pink blob but an exquisite , fragile , jewel-like object . |
| 29 | For the first time I refused to provide him with the refuge he so obviously wanted and the uncritical comfort that he craved . |
| 30 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |