Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 2 | ‘ Is your view about them today the same as it was then or do you now feel you might have acted differently ? ’ |
| 3 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 4 | I would be nice to think that if people knew the correct diet for them particularly the correct diet for weight loss , they would simply go and follow it , and that would be the end of obesity . |
| 5 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 6 | That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place . |
| 7 | The individual members of the Madeira Club of Savannah , Georgia ( founded in 1776 ) , own between them probably the finest collection of madeira wines in the world . |
| 8 | Well for me exactly the same as Bob sorry Robert , the Aldershot method plus er the thought processes . |
| 9 | Some of them particularly the tall dressed stones of the Ballinaby and Kildalton districts , may in fact be much later , perhaps of the early Christian or even Viking period ; but failing evidence to the contrary , a Bronze Age dating may be presumed . " |
| 10 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 11 | They do n't promote somebody that 's gon na shimmy past them up the corporate ladder although you could n't |
| 12 | Yeah but there was more of you so the more of you that works they 're not gon na pay you are they ? |
| 13 | ‘ Hello sweetheart , ’ he smiled , and walked past her up the narrow passage and into the back kitchen . |
| 14 | Pachatata 's square is larger than the circle , but has a similar arena ; , in the centre of it too the tell-tale black scar of a fire . |
| 15 | So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch . |
| 16 | I looked behind me just the same . |
| 17 | It was good to meet up with you again the other day . |
| 18 | and you go with her down the unlit hall |
| 19 | We went to make coffee , the wretched little kitchen , and I thought , anyhow I could n't face up to living here with him just the domestic effort . |
| 20 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
| 21 | In a sense this was true , although Brian arid I did n't appreciate quite how detached Franky had become until we lived alone with him late the following year . |
| 22 | gut Mr Lu got back into it down the last . |
| 23 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 24 | Mrs Shelley was found with serious head injuries , from which she later died , in her home the following day . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean it was merely a study of kinship , ’ he added , seeing before him now the outraged faces of his colleagues at his letting the side down by describing such work as ‘ nothing much , really ’ . |
| 26 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 27 | But when Luke Thackray came round with his cap , she 'd put a penny or two in it just the same , like everybody else , knowing , as they all did , that Disaster , which had struck the Rattries today , might strike any of them tomorrow . |
| 28 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 29 | Of all the cricket biographies as yet unwritten , this seems to have been the one which had stored in it potentially the greatest degree of ‘ human interest ’ . |
| 30 | He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton . |