Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 2 | During the debate , the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) referred , not unkindly , to my junior position in the Government . |
| 3 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 4 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
| 5 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
| 6 | My usual greeting from the cook from his kitchen on one side of the small restaurant . |
| 7 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 8 | Relieved , I turn my exhausted attention to the details of tomorrow 's expedition to the Valley of the Kings , and our return flight to Cairo . |
| 9 | As a non-specialist , I found it quite easy , with my scanty knowledge of the plants of the British Coal Measures , to identify most of the diverse flora of the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois . |
| 10 | I predicted 4–1 vs Chelsea ( not hard I hear you cry ) as can be seen by my astounding record in the predictions league . |
| 11 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 12 | It was my sole contribution to the conversation . |
| 13 | Archivist reads : I give to Henry my eldest son my broad loom in the shop with my rapier and dagger and a physic book called the Breviary of Health . |
| 14 | On Wednesday night I was seized with an intolerable pain from my right temple to the tip of my right shoulder , including my right eye , cheek , and jaw , and that side of the throat . |
| 15 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 16 | ‘ I was deafened in my right ear by the noise , ’ he said . |
| 17 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |
| 18 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 19 | Clinton also admitted that , despite his objections to the war , he did not wish to resist the draft because he had already planned a political career and , therefore , wished " to maintain my political viability within the system " . |
| 20 | However I was also intelligent enough to realize that , because of my extensive reading on the topic , I was capable of inventing a pretty good story about life in that period . |
| 21 | That is why I cherish the work of Messrs David Alford and Ted Hynds of the People , who condensed my musings on the subject of my nasal ingestion of the powdered and refined fruits of the coca leaf into the terse , pithy and intriguingly erect motto , ‘ Cocaine And Me , By Funny Man Fry . ’ |
| 22 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 23 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 24 | Mr. Walker : Although 1 had intended to publish my detailed answer in the official Report , in view of the Hon. Lady 's long supplementary question , I shall place my answer on the record now . |
| 25 | My poetic image of the Lady of the Hearth was grounded sharply on one particular occasion when , suffering from raging au , and having to cope with the demands of two small children in a freezing house , I struggled over and over again to make the wood catch fire . |
| 26 | As you can see , we have specially adapted the sitting-room to accommodate our experts ; I have removed my old mac from the back of the armchair to give the place a more ‘ streamlined ’ look . |
| 27 | I would like to be in my old home in the Wallowa country . |
| 28 | It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition . |
| 29 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 30 | I rattle my empty mug on the table . |