Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 2 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
| 3 | All around them the other coolies stared in disbelief at the sight of their tormentor so astonishingly struck down before their eyes ; then the floodwaters of their hatred burst some invisible dam , and several men dashed forward screaming incoherently to slash at the kneeling man 's head and shoulders with their coupe-coupes . |
| 4 | The first rays of the sun were gilding the grassy hillsides visible through the trees , and all around them the thick green roof of the jungle was gradually coming alive with the cries of darting , bright-hued birds . |
| 5 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |
| 6 | Somewhere behind him the huge figure loped . |
| 7 | My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt . |
| 8 | Sabine 's eyes narrowed , and he laughed suddenly , his whole face changing , bringing home to her the full force of his considerable attraction . |
| 9 | This incident brought home to him the great contrast between his father 's uprightness and the godlessness of those who sneered at him . |
| 10 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 11 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 12 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 13 | But nevertheless I do want to er , bring home to you the underlying strength of our businesses there 's no question , we 're very wel very well faced for , for an upturn . |
| 14 | The results of the [ 1922 ] General Election have brought forcibly before us the primary importance both of securing the votes of women electors and of getting a large number of women to take part in an electoral campaign . |
| 15 | Perhaps , like me , the unforgettable portrayal of Miss Jean Brodie by Maggie Smith captures perfectly for you the absolute belief in itself that Edinburgh has , in the rightness of her cause and the rectitude of her citizens . |
| 16 | Was love implanted , for instance , so that warriors would fight harder for their lives , bearing deep inside them the candlelit memory of the domestic hearth ? |
| 17 | Fortunately for us the spiritual and cultural vitality of the Reformation outlived his pessimistic estimate , but his point should not be ignored . |
| 18 | Marx was very much concerned with conflict ; indeed for him the driving force of history is based upon conflict between different groups or classes within society . |
| 19 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 20 | Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun . |
| 21 | Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ahead of you the serpentine walk to the castle was constructed about 1640 . |
| 24 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 25 | If so , would you kindly forward to him the tiny little package ? |
| 26 | Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if we do n't do what the Russians wish there may be the danger that they will not be ready to co-operate in getting back speedily to us the British and other Allied prisoners who fall into their hands as they advance into Germany . |