Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 2 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 3 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 5 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 6 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 7 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 8 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 9 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 10 | She stared back at him , a total and willing victim of his dark physical presence , aware of nothing but the low sexual note in his voice and the excitement engendered by the slow stroke of his hands . |
| 11 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 12 | The atmosphere consisted of nothing but the noxious fumes of burnt bodies : the recyclers could n't cope . |
| 13 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 14 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 15 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 16 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 17 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 18 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 19 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 20 | SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 21 | Simply serve them in tiny bowls or hors-d'oeuvre dishes , or pile up little mounds of them beside the sliced lamb and beef . |
| 22 | Compaoré had earlier sought to appease opposition figures when on July 26 he brought a number of them into the transitional government . |
| 23 | Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely . |
| 24 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 25 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 26 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 27 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 28 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 29 | I said if yo if you think you know that you might be able to build a relationship I said then er you know , tell her so I said and do n't try and run the both of them at the same time I said |
| 30 | IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) . |