Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 2 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 3 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 4 | Bracing the right side gives you the only opportunity to use the left side to start the forward swing smoothly and efficiently . |
| 5 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
| 6 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 7 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 8 | The old houses give you the creeps do n't they Bill ? |
| 9 | Mike Spencer-Phillips , Royal Scottish Consultant , organised a staff seminar to give a broad outline of Royal Scottish products following which the lead referrals have been flooding in . |
| 10 | British Rail tell us the London Paddington to Liverpool train service which is , is due at Oxford at six fifty-five tonight 's going to be starting from Reading instead ; that 's going to confuse a few people . |
| 11 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 12 | The voluntary hospital , the Infirmary , was specifically designed to care for the sick , and its relative freedom from the constraints associated with spending public money gave it the advantage over the sick wards at the workhouse . |
| 13 | East Germany 's ringing endorsement of his plan for speedy German unity makes him the strongest contender to lead the strongest power in non-communist Europe . |
| 14 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 15 | Brown ‘ boiled-up cow ’ type glue is holding the all-solid construction together remarkably well , and the high action makes it the perfect instrument for playing bottleneck and slide blues . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 17 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 18 | Empty phrases to give you the illusion that it 's Adam who 's holding you , and not me ? |
| 19 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 20 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 21 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 22 | Only a day earlier , another pro-Palestinian group calling itself the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ - believed to be from Abu Nidal 's organisation — had claimed responsibility in Beirut for the murder of the Belgian Jewish leader , Joseph Wybron . |
| 23 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 24 | Can my hon. Friend say what the price increases are likely to be in the forthcoming year ? |
| 25 | So , instead of a straightforward chemical manufactured by everybody else we can now offer a range of different properties to meet what the market wants . ’ |
| 26 | Finally , will the right hon. Gentleman explain what the trust could do that the district health authority , under its present management , could not ? |
| 27 | Stanley lowered his habitual newspaper to see what the exchange was about . |
| 28 | A concluding summary saying what the student feels has been learned about children and language from the school work . |
| 29 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 30 | Gerard Fusil , a French radio journalist , suffers the same insatiable affliction as Francoise , along with hundreds of other amateurs who want to cheat death with a dramatic natural backdrop , but his connections within the French media gave him the chance to create an annual event to satisfy even the most daredevil adventurer . |