Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
2 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
3 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
4 | True , I was now lying naked in a locked and candlelit cabana , alone with the industrious She-She , whose fleshy right hand made smoothing motions on the hair-dotted slope of my inner thigh … |
5 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
6 | Mars is among this galaxy , so from the 9th you 'll have plenty of extra energy to help you cope . |
7 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |
8 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
9 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
10 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
11 | Already from the 1860s they had introduced a reduced long-distance freight rate for milk to encourage the trade . |
12 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
13 | Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure . |
14 | sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside . |
15 | Yeah it was a big over to the main you know that |
16 | Thus by the 1770s they were on the threshold of a national discipline-orientated community . |
17 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
18 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
19 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
20 | Early in the 1450s he married Margaret , daughter of Sir Richard de Vernon of Haddon [ q.v . ] . |
21 | This collection , often inadequately reviewed at the time , but now seen as the heart of his poetic achievement , contains poems described by Hardy himself as ‘ possibly among the best I have written ’ . |
22 | If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down . |
23 | There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays . |
24 | So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think . |
25 | Straight after the Open he was offered a Rolls Royce to go out and celebrate his win . |
26 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |
27 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
28 | If they guarantee to put the mattresses all up in the dry they asked you to do yours or did they say they would do it ? |
29 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
30 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |