Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 2 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 3 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 4 | He took her arm , guiding her across the broad landing towards another door . |
| 5 | As to British naval power , the slave trade militated against rather than enhanced it through the high mortality of sailors engaged in it . |
| 6 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 7 | Is that you in the flash car pushing my little one out of the way ? |
| 8 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 9 | Brooke-Rose incorporates these into her novels but refuses to subordinate them to the narrative conventions of realism . |
| 10 | Cut these large sheets of hardboard into 1200mm ( 4ft ) squares ( they 're easier to handle ) and dry-lay them along the chalked lines , starting with a single board in the centre of the room . |
| 11 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 12 | One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells . |
| 13 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me , Miss Levington , ’ he enquired with silky smoothness , ‘ as you 're such an expert on human nature , why did Giles Denton make a point of publicly embarrassing you at the Grand Hotel ? ’ |
| 15 | Realists present it as the natural response to a bipolar international system . |
| 16 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |
| 17 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 18 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 19 | ‘ We 've soft-sold it on a limited basis , ’ said at Thorntons , ‘ focusing on particular clients and their circumstances . ’ |
| 20 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
| 21 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 22 | This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf . |