Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Athena , seven-year-old daughter of the late Christina Onassis , inherits the fabulous riches when she reaches 18 . |
2 | ‘ He loves jumping , and he loves the atmosphere , especially at the indoor shows where it is more immediate — a packed arena with a receptive crowd seems to lift his performance . |
3 | Bailed driver Mrs Jill Gunns , 47 , was warned of the possible charges when she reported to police yesterday . |
4 | Consider it as a kind of insurance for the odd times when you are not losing weight quite as you should . |
5 | Those blacks were hitting the deck as soon as it moved , and in the reverberating seconds when we all look to see who 's been hit , the suede nips down the alley and into the car . |
6 | She was absorbed in cleaning the arched windows when she heard the sound of a car engine . |
7 | My dad 's he did n't understand before he seen the mini eggs why they 're so dear . |
8 | Then , once the ads have been developed , it is the media person 's job to identify the specific places where they should appear , and to plan and cost a media schedule for the campaign . |
9 | Leave the rooted cuttings where they are until the following autumn and , if well-rooted , transplant to their permanent positions , otherwise leave until the following mid spring . |
10 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
11 | The canvas of my tent ( to be exact , not canvas but a green plastic material ) is flapping in the breeze which comes over the plains and stirs the dry leaves where they lie on the bottom of the dry river . |
12 | BALLYMENA opened their season by making the long trip to the Scottish Borders where they defeated Hawick after leading 13-0 at the interval . |
13 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
14 | Ferried looking for the foreign boys wherever they turn up . |
15 | Another form of sun-clock employing the direction rather than the length of the sun 's shadow was the sundial , but the Egyptians who invented it were far from understanding the subtleties involved in making an accurate instrument of this type , which must be calibrated for the latitudes of the different places where it is to be used . |
16 | " I say , Lyn , did I ever tell you how I actually got into one of the old mines when I was a kid ? " |
17 | Remembering the old pumps where they stood , |
18 | Jim took over the Old Bells when he feared new sky-high rent would force them both to quit the White Hart 12 miles away . |
19 | With the overtly Protestant policies of Edward VI 's ministers , the new groups were given a much freer rein , casting out images , decorations and the old vestments where they could , damaging many churches in the process . |
20 | Not like the old days when me and two women from the village did the lot . |
21 | Not like the old days when we looked up to you . |
22 | I like to remember the old days when we were together , for the first time . ’ |
23 | And sometimes they talked about Ireland and the old days when they were children . |
24 | And then in the old days when they used to have this body snatching , |
25 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
26 | Do you remember the old days when it was standard practice to put one paper on top of another ? |
27 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
28 | Kept absolutely meticulous accounts , even in the old days when he was a kid . |
29 | First , both theories suggest an eventual return of homosexuality : in the one ( psychoanalytic ) it is a psychic return of the repressed from within , in the other ( materialist ) a social or cultural return from without ; either an inner resurgence of desire through the breakdown of psychic repression , or the oppositional approach via the proximate of the demonized other from beyond , from the social margins where he or she has been discovered , constructed , displaced . |
30 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |