Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [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 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 9 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 19 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |
| 21 | ‘ You said they were n't acknowledged ; what 's wrong with them from the Edwin Garlands ’ point of view ? ’ |
| 22 | You 've not really had anything wrong with you in the past , have you ? |
| 23 | Creggan found his plumage had fine mist settling on it , while his beak grew shiny wet with it as the trees of Three Island Pond changed to faint grey shadows of their former selves before disappearing into white . |
| 24 | They all descended from a structure that was suspended high above them from the centre of the dome . |
| 25 | He rested the sack on the flat top of the culvert ; high above him on the slope he could hear somebody whistling . |
| 26 | ‘ Was he different with you after the dream ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 28 | He need not be interested in it at the time when the insurance is effected . |
| 29 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 30 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |