Example sentences of "[adv] of [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each suburban wife , as she made the beds , shopped for groceries , ate peanut-butter sandwiches with her children , chauffeured Cubs and Brownies , lay beside her husband at night , was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question , ‘ Is this all ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun . |
| 5 | Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ahead of you the serpentine walk to the castle was constructed about 1640 . |
| 8 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |