Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 2 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 3 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
| 4 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 5 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We were at Desnogorsk to start the first phase of an 18-month partnership programme between the Smolensk station and ourselves under the TACIS 92 programme ’ , said Arthur . |
| 7 | There must be someone in the group older than 35 . |
| 8 | The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it . |
| 9 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 10 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 11 | In England it has often been disputed whether there is any regional feeling and obviously there is nothing of the quasi-nationalism evident in Scotland and Wales . |
| 12 | Their dependent variable constituted 105 large companies ( drawn from the 500 largest firms in the US ) which during the period 1968–72 were involved in trade litigation for committing , or having being accused of committing , one or more of the following : price discrimination , tying arrangements , refusal to deal , exclusive dealing , franchise violation , price fixing , foreclosure of entry , reciprocity , allocation of markets , monopoly , conspiracy , and illegal mergers and acquisitions . |
| 13 | His film of Henry V , with himself as the rabble rousing monarch backed by a troupe of glittering British heavyweights , opens on October 6 . |
| 14 | In short , unless there is somebody behind the idea willing to take the risk of speaking up for it , the idea will evaporate and disappear . |
| 15 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 16 | He may raise the matter directly himself with the authority concerned . |
| 17 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 18 | Jason , 24 , found himself in the north African city between concerts in Bournemouth and St Austell — two other places Bogart never visited . |
| 19 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 20 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 21 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 22 | Nobody had seen that Jack Malone 's solution would involve throwing himself over the quarry one dark night . |
| 23 | He hauled himself over the gravel clear of the chassis , stood up , opened the front passenger door , pulled the lever which unlocked the hood . |
| 24 | So is there somebody on the site all the time |
| 25 | As productivity declined and inflation rose , the State under Conservative rule responded with a monetarist policy , the effect of which over the period 1979–86 took unemployment from about 1.5 million to almost 4 million . |
| 26 | Then he goes forward , as he must , to meet Esau himself , ‘ bowing himself to the ground seven times ’ as he goes . |
| 27 | A UNDP report released at the congress warned that AIDS could threaten the economic well-being of Asian countries , which by the year 2000 would account for 42 per cent of the world 's projected 100,000,000 cases . |
| 28 | There 's little in Marshall 's CV to prepare you for the way this story , awash with sentimental pitfalls , is turned into a deeply stirring , full blooded drama . |
| 29 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 30 | The four , who re-release their single Thank You For The Music next week , split up 10 years ago . |