Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
2 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He took her arm , guiding her across the broad landing towards another door . |
6 | As to British naval power , the slave trade militated against rather than enhanced it through the high mortality of sailors engaged in it . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Is that you in the flash car pushing my little one out of the way ? |
9 | … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days . |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | Brooke-Rose incorporates these into her novels but refuses to subordinate them to the narrative conventions of realism . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Yeah but Betty you 've given all yours to the bleeding bingo man . |
16 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
17 | Realists present it as the natural response to a bipolar international system . |
18 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |
19 | Similarly the italicised we in the third line of the fourth stanza . |
20 | It is also launching a new series called Wisley Companions , the intention of which is to collect information from a variety of Wisley Handbooks and compact it into a smaller number of volumes . |
21 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 ! |
24 | ‘ We 've soft-sold it on a limited basis , ’ said at Thorntons , ‘ focusing on particular clients and their circumstances . ’ |
25 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
26 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
27 | The many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
30 | 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 . |