Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 2 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 3 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 4 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 5 | Since the publication of his The Seven Lively Arts in the 1920s Seldes had been a linchpin of New York 's arts scene . |
| 6 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 7 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 8 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 9 | I mean there were four or five knocking on door of er a friend of mine the other day , who said y They were they were under the age of ten . |
| 10 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , surely you did n't fall for all that nonsense of his the other night ? |
| 11 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 12 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 13 | Today , as the Church strives to carry out her perennial mission of proclaiming the Word of she the immense challenge of evangelizing this new culture and expressing the unchanging truth of the Gospel in its language . |
| 14 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 15 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 16 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 17 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 18 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 19 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 20 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
| 21 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 23 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 24 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 25 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 26 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |
| 27 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
| 28 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |