Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign Chris Waddle , but it was not right for him at the time , we went for Peter Beardsley , but it was not right for Everton . |
| 4 | You , you find a house to rent that seems right for your about the price , perhaps a bit high but about right for your level of income . |
| 5 | You 've never done nuthin' for nobody in the whole of your mean , miserable life ! ’ |
| 6 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 7 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 8 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 9 | It should be possible for anybody in the organization at any level to make such a suggestion . |
| 10 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 11 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 12 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 13 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 15 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 16 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 18 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 19 | In other words , I saw the town as being completely different towards him at the outset of the film , and then in snide little ways he would turn them against him because he carried his violence with him . |
| 20 | She kept clear of everybody in the house in case they reminded her of the ill person her uncle had become . |
| 21 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 22 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 23 | It sleeps on , oblivious of everything but the source of life within it that is strengthening it daily . |
| 24 | Leonora forgot Guy and everything else in her rediscovered world as Penry 's presence transformed the darkness into an exciting , intimate microcosm inhabited by two people oblivious of everything but the sheer physical pleasure of being together . |
| 25 | They were ensconced , it seemed to Robyn , in their own private world , oblivious of anything except the desire that was building between them . |
| 26 | Meredith wriggled to the edge of the seat , oblivious of anything but the need to put this man straight about her very proper , homely grandmother . |
| 27 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 28 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 29 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |