Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all the normal rules I should have pulled away before that , but if the road was clear I could let things get more serious before doing anything , and if it was blocked it was already too late . |
| 2 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 3 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 4 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 5 | If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard . |
| 6 | In contrast Ralph Shergold who took Standard Four was not only a splendid teacher but also one of the nicest men I have ever known . |
| 7 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 8 | But Guy Sterne is one of the nicest men I know . |
| 9 | He 's one of the nicest men I 've ever met in my life . |
| 10 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 11 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 12 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 13 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 14 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 15 | One of the finest ones I was ever on , which we enjoyed , it was n't a new ship by any means , but it was the Lancastrian |
| 16 | She never used the cane but was one of the finest teachers I have known . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the finest appointments I have ever made ’ . |
| 18 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 19 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 20 | Whittingham wrote of him : ‘ One of the finest characters I have met . |
| 21 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 22 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 23 | It explains in part why I hold the political philosophies I do . |
| 24 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |
| 25 | In 148 of the 168 procedures I recorded whether I used diathermy . |
| 26 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 28 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 29 | Given the image of BA coupled to the lower fares I can see passengers defecting in their droves from the City 's resident airlines . |
| 30 | ‘ Whatever good will there is , ’ wrote Moore in December , ‘ and among the lower orders I believe there is a good deal , is taken no advantage of . ’ |