Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor . |
| 2 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 3 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 4 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 5 | As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering . |
| 6 | Please accept my application and enrol me into Quality Paperbacks Direct , and send me the five introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 7 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 8 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 9 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 10 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 11 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 12 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 14 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 15 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 16 | He 's had over seven thousand from me the past three months . |
| 17 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 18 | but just being on the bench gives me the tiniest little bit of hope … |
| 19 | Lorna Wood , a promotion activist working for the industry , gave me the full shock-horror story : ‘ People knew raisins were good for them . |
| 20 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 21 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 22 | And you just hammer them the poor old cloth workers they 've got used to me now , they had an awful fit at the time , you ca n't do that . |
| 23 | The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today . |
| 24 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 25 | Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500 . |
| 26 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 27 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 28 | The horse , trained by David Barons , was called Seagram — and gave them the ultimate worldwide publicity without the cost of ownership ! |
| 29 | They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales . |
| 30 | Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world . |