Example sentences of "the [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can swear to every pie I have swallowed , to every cup of sack I have gulped , to the few good women I have met and , thankfully , to every bad woman I have slept with . |
| 2 | She took another step forward , and saw the few personal items she had brought with her lying on the floor . |
| 3 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 4 | Yes , most people pay to come to NCT classes , and excellent value they are too , for the few thousand parents we manage to teach each year . |
| 5 | She gets on very well with my grandmother , in fact she 's one of the few young people she 'll actually listen to when — ’ |
| 6 | In the bottom of the hi-fi cabinet I found , sandwiched between an old Ramones LP and the new Tommy Smith , the few printed sheets I possess . |
| 7 | ‘ And I hope we 're both mature enough to treat each other with civility and respect for the few remaining days we 're forced to spend together . ’ |
| 8 | It is for these reasons that sedimentologists have been forced to work to death the few modern examples they have ( such as the poor old Bahamas Ranks ) for analogies with ancient sedimentation . |
| 9 | The few living ones he had seen held only despair . |
| 10 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 11 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 12 | The wind resistant Tactel and Ebyl Thermovelours fleece helped keep me snug and warm on the few chilly days we 've had this summer . |
| 13 | He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood . |
| 14 | His paw landed in the ashtray , knocking it out of my hand and spilling the few precious drops I had caught . |
| 15 | Despite the tensions of the human rights office , she was always remarkably good-humoured and adored the few social moments she allowed herself . |
| 16 | The few brief interviews he gave to journalists were terse , and could be described as defensive . |
| 17 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 18 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 19 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 20 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ said Dexter , through a mouthful of chicken tikka masalla , one of the few Indian dishes he could stomach , ‘ there might just be something to this drugs thing . ’ |
| 21 | Of the few poisonous letters she received , none came from Cleveland . |
| 22 | He did not volunteer any further suggestions but took her to one of the few French restaurants he knew in Soho , where hopefully she would not be reminded of the man she loved . |
| 23 | ‘ For the sake of the few unfrazzled nerve-endings I have left , I sincerely hope not , Mr Jacobsen , ’ she returned coolly , completely unaware that she 'd crossed her fingers behind her back in the old childhood gesture of protection against telling a lie . |
| 24 | Gemma is one of the few prosperous people I know in London , other than myself . |
| 25 | Adding to these the few cordless tools I already possess , and one or two tools ‘ hot off the manufacturing press ’ I shall endeavour to introduce the technology and give a broad appraisal of the tools . |
| 26 | I have personal doubts on the few modular courses I know well . |
| 27 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 28 | At twenty-eight , I began to find myself , having overcome the many spiritual depths I 'd sunk to in my emotional isolation . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , despite inflation and the many extra duties they have entrusted us with , they insist on a budget of £20.2m . |
| 30 | Yet another Messiah on ‘ early ’ instruments , conspiring no doubt to send retailers completely mad in their attempts to decide which of the many available readings they should plump for . |