Example sentences of "[det] the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | This procedure can suggest a replacement for about half the genuine miskeyings it receives , and the replacement is usually right ( although it does suggest " teacher " for " Thacher " ) . |
| 3 | Have to oh shit I du n no I ca n't remember half the fucking conversations I had . |
| 4 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 5 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |
| 6 | You love me — even after all the terrible things I 've done ? |
| 7 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 8 | May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ? |
| 9 | Remember all the good times you shared . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Place needs all the good teachers it can get , from what I can gather , ’ said Major Tilney . |
| 11 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
| 12 | ‘ All the good things he does are not always appreciated by outsiders and he 'll captain the team at Leeds . |
| 13 | Well , you can start by trying to live each day to the full ; cram in all the good things you can . |
| 14 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
| 15 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 16 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 17 | We 're not saying that that er has been done er through all the cheap channels I do n't blame him probably do the same . |
| 18 | Some fat women are positive about their bodies and consider themselves powerful , beautiful , sexual , voluptuous and juicy , but many more of us internalise all the negative messages we receive about fat ( clumsy . |
| 19 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 20 | " The Meeting require that the Medical gentlemen who receive annual allowances from this Meeting do produce a distinct list of all the poor Patients they have attended during the course of the Year , and the medicines bestowed upon such Patients . " |
| 21 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |
| 22 | Like all the best puzzlers it 's simple enough to get into without a struggle , so addictive you 'll always want ‘ just one more go ’ and , you guessed it , frustrating in the extreme ! |
| 23 | Former Giants coach Bill Parcells , commentating on the game , said : ‘ In deference to all the great players I have coached , I would have to say Lawrence Taylor is the greatest of them all . |
| 24 | The way people talk and talk about tachism and cubism and this ism and that ism and all the long words they use — great smeary clots of words and phrases . |
| 25 | Rather than explore all the possible pathways we need some method of ordering the search . |
| 26 | Despite all the new experiences she was going through , the thought of Rossmayne never left her . |
| 27 | And all the new ones I 've brought out . |
| 28 | Utah , in particular , needs all the new employers it can find . |
| 29 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
| 30 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |