Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
| 2 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 4 | True , I was now lying naked in a locked and candlelit cabana , alone with the industrious She-She , whose fleshy right hand made smoothing motions on the hair-dotted slope of my inner thigh … |
| 5 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 6 | Mars is among this galaxy , so from the 9th you 'll have plenty of extra energy to help you cope . |
| 7 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |
| 8 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
| 9 | Already from the 1860s they had introduced a reduced long-distance freight rate for milk to encourage the trade . |
| 10 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
| 11 | Thus by the 1770s they were on the threshold of a national discipline-orientated community . |
| 12 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
| 13 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 14 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 15 | Early in the 1450s he married Margaret , daughter of Sir Richard de Vernon of Haddon [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | This collection , often inadequately reviewed at the time , but now seen as the heart of his poetic achievement , contains poems described by Hardy himself as ‘ possibly among the best I have written ’ . |
| 17 | There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays . |
| 18 | So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think . |
| 19 | Straight after the Open he was offered a Rolls Royce to go out and celebrate his win . |
| 20 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 21 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 22 | If , for example , the driver 's national insurance contributions are paid partly by the haulier it may well be presumed that the driver is an employee . |
| 23 | And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think . |
| 24 | Self-expression , of course , is a most important element in child development , but often in the 1960s it was espoused with pseudo-religious fervour . |
| 25 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 26 | During the 1970s and well into the '80s it was usual for four Pakistanis to fill four quarter-finals places . |
| 27 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 28 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 29 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |
| 30 | Here in the Med we see boats from many nations and , with the exception of a very small number of elderly Britons and Dutch , most are comparatively recent recruits to the joys of yachting . |