Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 2 | This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ . |
| 3 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 4 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 5 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 6 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 7 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 8 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 9 | me the actual thing of what we 're saying . |
| 10 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 11 | If I say , Well you 'll give me the only ever give me the negative version of the square root , so if I give you sixteen , you give me minus four . |
| 12 | This gives me the terrible dichotomy of knowing that during the stalking season I would dearly love to ruin the day for the fat boors crawling all over Scotland , puffing in their tweeds , but I would hate to disturb Ted and his colleagues at their job , which pays their grocery bills and is their only source of income . |
| 13 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 14 | Show me the ultimate intensifiers of sin . |
| 15 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 16 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 17 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 18 | To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it . |
| 19 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ To those who took offence at the ‘ Burn down the disco ’ line , I 'd say , please show me the black members of New Order . |
| 21 | This , I confess , is to me the real aim of art history . |
| 22 | Rhubarb fool is a very beautiful dish — and to me the only way of making rhubarb acceptable . |
| 23 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 24 | If ‘ There has just taken place in me the mental process of remembering … ’ means nothing more than ‘ I have just remembered … ’ then to deny the mental process would mean to deny the remembering . |
| 25 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 26 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 27 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 28 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 29 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 30 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |