Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 3 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 4 | The software will also work across multiple domains , so that network managers in different parts of the organisation can simultaneously tweak the network ; this is achieved by giving them simultaneous access to the central management database . |
| 5 | From the point of view of Spalding and Gonzalez-Casanova , the working class is seen to have been coopted by the political elite , offering them political support in the form of votes of union members and receiving , in return , favours such as improved wages or working conditions . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , they had eaten all their K rations see , then they started on the camels and the mules , then the cats and dogs , until finally there was nothing edible left in the fort . |
| 7 | A PARCEL winging its way around the country carrying a homing device may sound like something straight from the pages of a James Bond story but there is nothing top secret about the idea . |
| 8 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 9 | FastPort gives everyone direct access to the printer . |
| 10 | The majority of them negotiated entry into the Roman Empire under the leadership of Fritigern . |
| 11 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 12 | During the debate , the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) referred , not unkindly , to my junior position in the Government . |
| 13 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 14 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
| 15 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 16 | My usual greeting from the cook from his kitchen on one side of the small restaurant . |
| 17 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 18 | Relieved , I turn my exhausted attention to the details of tomorrow 's expedition to the Valley of the Kings , and our return flight to Cairo . |
| 19 | As a non-specialist , I found it quite easy , with my scanty knowledge of the plants of the British Coal Measures , to identify most of the diverse flora of the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois . |
| 20 | I predicted 4–1 vs Chelsea ( not hard I hear you cry ) as can be seen by my astounding record in the predictions league . |
| 21 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 22 | It was my sole contribution to the conversation . |
| 23 | Archivist reads : I give to Henry my eldest son my broad loom in the shop with my rapier and dagger and a physic book called the Breviary of Health . |
| 24 | On Wednesday night I was seized with an intolerable pain from my right temple to the tip of my right shoulder , including my right eye , cheek , and jaw , and that side of the throat . |
| 25 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 26 | ‘ I was deafened in my right ear by the noise , ’ he said . |
| 27 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 28 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 29 | Clinton also admitted that , despite his objections to the war , he did not wish to resist the draft because he had already planned a political career and , therefore , wished " to maintain my political viability within the system " . |
| 30 | However I was also intelligent enough to realize that , because of my extensive reading on the topic , I was capable of inventing a pretty good story about life in that period . |