Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 2 | bring me the drowsy country thing ! |
| 3 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 4 | Bring me the bloody cheese grater in the ! |
| 5 | Elizabeth had sent me the hideous paper cover of the Italian translation of A Wreath of Roses , in shame marking it BURN . |
| 6 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
| 7 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 8 | Would you please tell me the high season price for one week ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 10 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 11 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 12 | FANS of the NFL associate the Green Bay Packers with legendary coach Vince Lombardi — after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named . |
| 13 | These two distributions ( of differences in skill between left and right hands ) consist of those individuals in whom the right shift factor biasing the left hemisphere towards subserving speech , and coincidentally favouring greater skill of the right hand , is present ( RS + ) and those in whom it is absent ( RS ) . |
| 14 | Now , individuals with right-sided speech constitute one half of those in whom the right shift factor is absent since in the absence of this factor speech dominance is distributed between left and right hemispheres according to chance expectation . |
| 15 | Vazgen Manukyan , already named in September as Minister of State for Defence Issues , to whom the then Defence Minister Vazgen Sarkisyan was to be subordinate [ see p. 39108 ] , was appointed Defence Minister on Oct. 20 , with Sarkisyan becoming a presidential adviser in regions bordering Azerbaijan . |
| 16 | This allows the centre to offer students , for whom the full degree programme may not be appropriate , the opportunity to work towards an end point at Year 1 or 2 which carries a qualification awarded by SCOTVEC on a national basis and which , through SCOTVEC 's efforts in negotiating national recognition agreements for its awards , has currency in the employment marketplace . |
| 17 | In order to maintain a level playing field , it is important that the Government make access available to well established credit insurance underwriters who have clients/policyholders to whom the national interest reinsurance may be appropriate . |
| 18 | It states that any industrial action or strike called in any area of the union — the NUM is a federation of independent Branches , most of them geographically defined — must be sanctioned by the National Executive , or by ‘ a Committee … to whom the National Executive Committee may have delegated the power of giving such sanction … |
| 19 | Given them the negative polarity item I give a damn . |
| 20 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
| 21 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 22 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
| 23 | First , the merger of two large firms will give them the immediate monopoly power that derives from a large market share . |
| 24 | Okay , but the item that licenses them the other licensing sentence you need in order to license these items , you ca n't just go anywhere in the sentence so sentence three , herself saw Florence is no good , even though Florence is there , it 's in the wrong place relative to herself and similarly six , anyone saw no one is no good , even though no one is in the sentence . |
| 25 | BGS issues daily geomagnetic activity forecasts , making use of the most recent information on solar activity , and operates a real-time geomagnetic disturbance monitoring service for commercial customers , among them the European Space Agency , which has commissioned BGS to produce long- and short-term forecasts of solar and geomagnetic activity . |
| 26 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
| 27 | Where sharp edges and light cut into them the pointed back end of the brush was used to draw through them . |
| 28 | They had few friends in France , and without them the dazzling night life meant nothing . |
| 29 | I am sure I could sting this town 's senile pensioners for a couple of quid , by selling them the old tea hut as firewood . |
| 30 | So this wo n't displace those accounts listed above , nor indeed one or two others made in the studio , among them the underrated Janowitz/DG version ( I am pleased to see that is listed in the current Good CD Guide ) . |