Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
2 | One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations . |
3 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
4 | H two O plus S O four erm that 's a double negative so the goes there so magnesium M G S O four |
5 | This is not an ideal solution , in that inevitably the Manager also wishes to do some ordinary non-privileged work at the same time . |
6 | They may come in in little pieces , but if the pieces can be stuck together the results usually show inside of their first forty-eight hours . |
7 | We got drunk together the night before Boris left . |
8 | Once they are manageable then the tummy either twinges or aches . |
9 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
10 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
11 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
12 | Taking votes mainly from one of the existing parties , it has given the other i.e the Tories virtually a clear run . |