Example sentences of "the [noun] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
2 | If you do that through the cheapest method which is the stand alone system it wo n't pull that off . |
3 | Been on the drip all night she 's got an infection |
4 | Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it . |
5 | On the board this morning we 're going to have a bash at thinking about some targets , we 're going to have a bash think about , how you think you 've done so far ? |
6 | Well when Ken said about the headboard last week they were selling sheets on mini market I said pink ones and grey ones but I said not while they had the Christmas stuff in , it was before the Christmas stuff they must have taken them out you know I |
7 | Coming from the RAF Special Police it was a typical mode of address and the man who barked it out wore the usual truculent expression . |
8 | With the wind and the tide this way it 's too tricky to bring a boat in here . |
9 | Then in the afternoon fours game he fought back brilliantly , assisted with some great bowls from his No 3 John McLoughlin — another Games candidate — to level the match 17-17 after the stipulated 21 ends . |
10 | From the case 3 curve we can decide on the percentage of accesses corresponding to the 10–90 per cent packing points , i.e. 11.1 per cent , 22.2 per cent , … of records . |
11 | If this is still the case next May he apparently wins a Swiss watch from The Sun in honour of the acheivement ! |
12 | Not even to the padre next time he came to Ardneavie to hear Confession , Vi thought grimly . |
13 | ‘ When we had the contract last season I allowed Sky to do interviews on grounds . ’ |
14 | ‘ I like to provide kids with pictures that contain lots of details so that they can find something new in the illustrations each time they look at them . |
15 | ‘ I like to provide kids with pictures that contain lots of details so that they can find something new in the illustrations each time they look at them . |
16 | It is too late to register a pending action if a bankruptcy petition has been presented against the husband ; in Re Flint ( 1992 ) The Times 16 July it was held that a transfer of the matrimonial home by order of the court in matrimonial proceedings to the wife in the period between the presentation of a bankruptcy petition against the husband and the bankruptcy order was void . |
17 | He was all things to all people : to The Times Literary Supplement he was ‘ striking a sincere blow for one of the oldest traditions of them all : genuine , unself-conscious self-expression ’ . |
18 | Edwin must have been struck by the contrast each time he climbed the stairs . |
19 | The only losers if McEnroe fails to overcome his perennial distrust of the media will be the charities to which he has promised to give his winnings from the $6 million tournament he has described as ‘ obscene ’ . |
20 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
21 | To give the settlement greater weight it was also agreed that Henry should take to wife Catherine , Charles 's daughter , whose hand he had sought in negotiation some years earlier . |
22 | On the other side of the coin this year we have mainstream authors plying their trade in classic sf territory — Robert Harris and P D James to name two . |
23 | After precisely 12 seconds in the 4g level turn he rolls off the bank to 30 degrees , but holds on the g . |
24 | ‘ TO THE rest of the University 1st XI I was an aberration ; the revolutionary who loved cricket . ’ |
25 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
26 | Press the button gently but firmly and without jerking the camcorder each time you start and stop . |
27 | But to the Branch Davidian Sect he was the Lamb of God . |
28 | Returning to our work Sid and I became more and more closely connected with Radio Station 1OAB and during the Annual General Meeting of the association that year I was appointed Programme Director . |
29 | Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months . |
30 | And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner . |