Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 2 | He delivered his new body from its artificial womb the next day . |
| 3 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 4 | Nobody became more interested in the fate of these early directors than Scott Fitzgerald , and his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is essentially about how directors were taken over by producers in the Hollywood system . |
| 5 | To his absolute delight the first trap had held what must have been a seven pound salmon , plus a couple of mullet which he had ignored . |
| 6 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 7 | Dai Huang examined his new kiln the next day . |
| 8 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |