Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was the greatest bowler I ever faced or saw , and in my opinion certainly the best bowler Australia ever produced . ’ |
| 2 | As the light had caressed the window in my room early the next morning , implying that the world had begun to awaken , I was already up , dressed in clean crisp fabrics of my school uniform , a new and unwelcome experience to me , and gobbling down my two Weetabix and Marmite toast for breakfast . |
| 3 | oi Touch my sort out the Like to think that we can afford something like this . |
| 4 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 5 | , he 's probably widdleing nothing , poor that was n't worth sitting down for , no to think that once I 've gone on , which I did on Friday , I 'm now on my way out the other end |
| 6 | On my way there the first morning I noticed that Nelly 's house had a ‘ To Let ’ sign in the window . |
| 7 | Taken together these observations highlight what is in my view perhaps the major challenge facing research libraries in the 1990s , namely to develop a model whereby consultation of our cultural inheritance manifest in print and manuscript form can be beneficially combined , and handled conjunctly with , access to electronic information in a wide variety of forms . |
| 8 | Equally , the projected image may itself incorporate movement , especially if shot from a fast-moving source ( a helicopter , aeroplane or whatever ) , in which case even the nearer parts of the background will be fairly distant . |
| 9 | ( c ) a delivery after initial failure , in which case either the wrong book is first sent , or delivery is made only after the call-slip has been returned for checking to the Issue Hall and has then been re-submitted , and |
| 10 | Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal held that the word ‘ cocaine ’ as used in paragraph one is a generic word which includes within its ambit both the direct extracts of the coca leaf and whatever results from a chemical transformation . |
| 12 | He also denies raping a 26-year-old woman in her home earlier the same day . |
| 13 | She is canny and determined , and her talent is so special that she could be running her workshop from an oil rig in the North Sea — people would buy her work just the same . |
| 14 | Her voice trailed away as she realised , from the other woman 's beaming smile of relief , that she 'd inadvertently given her hostess quite the wrong impression . |
| 15 | If observed planetary behaviour differed from that predicted by the Copernican research programme at some stage in its development then the hard core of the programme could be protected by modifying the epicycles or adding new ones . |
| 16 | plaintiff wife of deceased was pregnant at time of deceased 's death but later miscarried. held that as plaintiff would most likely have given up work to take care of her baby therefore the joint earnings approach to calculating dependency was not appropriate . |
| 17 | Although she made no effort to be heard , the night carried her voice just the same . |
| 18 | And why is Ellie dragging her suitcase out the front door ? |
| 19 | Some were richer and more prestigious than others , and their favour presumably the more worth having . |
| 20 | Where lesser imaginations , like that of Charlotte M. Yonge , can be adequately described as ‘ products of their time ’ ( because , like mirrors , they reflect back to their world merely the domestic images they took from it ) , a vision as peculiar as Dickens 's not only transforms the actuality , but subtly alters the reader 's perception of it . |
| 21 | If she stretched out her hand just the tiniest bit , she would be able to touch his where it rested on his knee . |
| 22 | It was Addison , formerly President of the Local Government Board , but with its demise now the first Minister of Health , who introduced the programme which articulated Lloyd George 's election promise to the voters of Wolverhampton in November 1918 that returning soldiers should have ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ . |
| 23 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 24 | She had planned , she thought as she warily made her way downstairs the following morning , on solitude . |
| 25 | They might be hidden behind their curtain of trees , but she felt oppressed by their proximity just the same , as if they were standing guard over her . |
| 26 | Target profiling is undertaken initially as an overview and subsequently in greater detail , by which time ideally the following information and assessments should be provided about each possible target subject to availability : |
| 27 | A nationwide census was carried out on Nov. 27-29 during which time almost the entire population was subject to a dawn-to-dusk curfew and all cross-border activity was prohibited . |
| 28 | With its subject-matter mainly the crushing ennui of that experience , this section hampers the flow of the overall narrative somewhat , despite the crispness of its recollections . |
| 29 | Not only does it influence whether or not you fork out the requisite 65p , it can make or break a band . |
| 30 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |