Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 4 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 5 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 6 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 7 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 8 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 9 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 10 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 12 | Hundred and fifty for him for a fortnight at the height of the season and two hundred and fifty each for us at the height of the season . |
| 13 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never had a winner in France and perhaps Lyric Fantasy can change that for me in the Abbaye . |
| 15 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 16 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 17 | ’ But it ca n't make life any easier for you at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 19 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 20 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 21 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 22 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 23 | By 1992 , brewers with more than 2,000 pubs will have to turn half of them above the 2,000 ceiling into quasi free houses . |
| 24 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 25 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 26 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 27 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 28 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 29 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 30 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |