Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 2 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 3 | Lucy drove , deft competent hands guiding them through the suburbs , Jay lit cigarettes for them both , a secret kiss at the tip of each one ; houses blurred past beyond Lucy 's profile . |
| 4 | Secondly , assistance and information is offered to these firms , guiding them through the planning and development process , and offering advice on a range of issues from education and housing to estate agents and government grants . |
| 5 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 6 | Her brother Jeff was guiding them alongside the jetty now . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 8 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 9 | I 'm afraid nothing of the sort is hidden from him . |
| 10 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 11 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 12 | We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 13 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 14 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 15 | It is not clear which of the pair put these points to Attlee . |
| 16 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 17 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 18 | Figure 7.5 Which of a pair of male sticklebacks wins in a territorial dispute depends on where the fight takes place , as a simple experiment by Niko Tinbergen demonstrates . |
| 19 | Most libraries have wall charts guiding you to the shelf groupings for the major Dewey divisions . |
| 20 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 21 | From right beside Lawton something huge detached itself from the shadows . |
| 22 | There was the stand of palms , but not the conspicuous one to the north . |
| 23 | The latter approach was the proper one for the law to adopt . |
| 24 | well I read the free one for the week and that was it |
| 25 | If two or more higher-level indexes exist , each of them may be handled using a different one of the techniques described below aimed at reducing index search time , depending on their size . |
| 26 | There is still a division of labour between politicians and administrators in pluralist theory , though it is a very different one to a model of government in which politicians make policy and administrators implement them . |
| 27 | Tam Dalyell is misleading readers by illustrating generic substitution of drugs with the substitution of one car by a different one on the basis that they do the same job ( Forum , 17 March , p 749 ) . |
| 28 | The eight fabrics that were chosen for the garments were completely different one from the other . |
| 29 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 30 | " Who 's that other old girl , the common-prim one with the cat ? " |