Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 2 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 3 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 4 | As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering . |
| 5 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 6 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 7 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 8 | Lorna Wood , a promotion activist working for the industry , gave me the full shock-horror story : ‘ People knew raisins were good for them . |
| 9 | Turkish troops conducting operations against Turkey 's own Kurds ( among whom the left-wing Kurdish Workers ' Party , PKK , were especially active ) were accorded the right to cross into Iraq in hot pursuit . |
| 10 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 11 | Pat Bavester was another person for whom the low fat diet worked where others had failed . |
| 12 | The third Duke of Roxburghe ( 1704–1804 ) , a collector on the grand scale after whom the exclusive bibliophilic Roxburghe Club was named , had a number of tracts concerning Mary Tofts , who perturbed the gynaecologists of her day by claiming to have given birth to a litter of rabbits . |
| 13 | The Serbs , with whom the right hon. Gentleman was fighting , who were fighting in the mountains , held up seven German divisions . |
| 14 | Other examples show however that the person of which the infinitive event is predicated is not always the speaker : ( 4 ) … but he was differently designed , full of desires and aspirations , itching at the fingers , lusting with the eyes , whom the whole variegated world could not satisfy with aspects . |
| 15 | In the Commonwealth , Callaghan ( previously a supporter of arms sales ) took a firm line in promoting a ban on sporting and other contacts with South Africa , and enforced the so-called Gleneagles Agreement with other Commonwealth countries , amongst whom the Conservative Prime Minister of Australia , Malcolm Fraser , proved an unexpectedly vigorous opponent of apartheid . |
| 16 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 17 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 18 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 19 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 20 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 21 | The horse , trained by David Barons , was called Seagram — and gave them the ultimate worldwide publicity without the cost of ownership ! |
| 22 | Between them the major Dutch breeds ( black-and-whites and the red-and-white dual-purpose Meuse-Rhine-Yssel ) account for 99 per cent of the dairy cows in the Netherlands today , with the black-and-whites averaging more than 6,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat , the MRY 6,000kg at 4.3 per cent and the less common Groningen Whiteheaded about 5,700kg at 4.2 per cent . |
| 23 | Many unexpected features greet the visitor to Edelson House , among them the semi-circular oil-on-canvas paintings above the doorways into the attractive lounge and dining room . |
| 24 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 25 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 26 | The documents he mentions are those which now have in them the forged primatial passages , and the only question which arises is : were these passages already in them when Lanfranc wrote these words , or were they added later ? |
| 27 | I saw two small spires through the spy-hole , and beyond them the intense red haze of the kiln chamber . |
| 28 | The band 's aggregate scores gave them the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association championship for their grade . |
| 29 | The first rays of the sun were gilding the grassy hillsides visible through the trees , and all around them the thick green roof of the jungle was gradually coming alive with the cries of darting , bright-hued birds . |
| 30 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |