Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 2 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 3 | However attractive the decor of the bathroom or the built-in kitchen they will not obscure a local public amenity once you return to the property as an owner . |
| 4 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 5 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 6 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 7 | At the other extreme , in the ballet called ‘ The Red Shoes ’ in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , Vicki ( Moira Shearer ) acquires the red shoes that compel her , or the balletic character she plays , to dance to her death , fleeing the diabolical shoemaker ( Leonid Massine ) . |
| 8 | To substantiate the continuum hypothesis De Camp and others ( for example , Bickerton , in his detailed studies of Guyanese Creole ) point to the following well-documented facts : few Jamaicans or Guyanese speak Standard English , few speak maximally broad Creole all the time : most speak ( by their own assessment as well as a linguist 's ) something " in between " ; and how close to the standard or the broad Creole they speak , is largely a function of their social class . |
| 9 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 10 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 11 | You never bother with the Brut or the good suit I said |
| 12 | The more torque an engine has , the bigger load it can pull in the same gear or the higher gear it can use for a given load . |
| 13 | Ms Radice got to the crux of the matter when she told The Washington Post , ‘ To me , when the obvious sexual nature … is the only thing you see or the first thing you see or the overwhelming thing that you experience the American public has given us a lot of guidance on this , and Congress has given us a lot of guidance , saying they do n't want us to spend money on that particular type of art ’ . |
| 14 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 15 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
| 16 | they wo n't send you to anything like The Sun or the Daily Mirror I do n't think |
| 17 | The levels of litter we leave behind for example — or the aggressive treatment we hand out to sensitive individuals as occurred at Craig-y-Forwyn . |
| 18 | ‘ Yesterday it was only up to my knees : by tomorrow or the next day it 'll be this high at least . ’ |
| 19 | Tomorrow or the next day he 'd call in again and she 'd hand him over the money and the suit . |
| 20 | But all the explanation she gave me was , ‘ Now yow keep away from the lads an' never let 'em kiss yer or the next thing yer know yer 'll be 'avin' a baby . |
| 21 | So the next message that I was going to or the next thing I was concerned about really , was on page |
| 22 | Unlike the way he had spoken to her earlier , or the previous time they had met . |
| 23 | And when you 're starting to talk like that , everyone is discussing it according to their own experience or the last lesson they taught when this came up . |
| 24 | That 's the kind of war this one was , one where the only person you could trust was yourself , and yourself not that much . |
| 25 | James was brought back to London on 16 December , where the enthusiastic reception he received from the crowds who lined the streets , made the King think that the people 's anger " was not at his person , but at his religion " . |
| 26 | This is very like Pearl , where the visionary landscape he wakes in makes the dreamer-father forget even his bereavement , ‘ Garten my goste al greffe for3ete ’ . |
| 27 | This is most effectively demonstrated in the case of Sony 's Walkman , where the bass sound you hear is in effect a trick created by using cross-frequencies to ‘ synthesise ’ low bass in the mini-headphones ; it sounds low , but out loud there would be no real impact because it does n't actually exist ! |
| 28 | Not that time , nor the next time they went ; nor the next , nor the next … |
| 29 | is that the milky bar I gave him ? |
| 30 | He should have gone forever once the drug testers in Seoul four years ago established that the boastful arm he raised to Carl Lewis was actually saluting a lie . |