Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the possible block in round us . |
| 2 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 3 | I sent home the the that document in with the national curriculum 's er report . |
| 4 | She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the facts , however , his Lordship found the greatest difficulty in seeing that the claim was made out in law . |
| 6 | Of course he had n't been going to fill the bloody canal in ! |
| 7 | Hope you put the right pair in . |
| 8 | It means keeping it , getting it wide and then putting the right ball in . |
| 9 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 10 | It will require some things that are going to be necessary for the statutory and voluntary sectors in any case and it will mean drawing the private sector in , like a common assessment policy for all long term care . |
| 11 | Lord Mayor , the Labour Group in have a way of bandying words about without any action . |
| 12 | It 's a cute wheeze that arguably owes more to Flann O'Brien ( the rebellion of the fictional characters in At Swim-Two-Birds ) than to James Joyce 's other literary heir . |
| 13 | I suppose this might be taken as perhaps a basic statement of Impressionist doctrine , and we know , incidentally , that the fictional painter in À la recherche , Elstir , who plays a very important role in the novel , perhaps more important than either the fictional writer , Bergotte , or the fictional musician , Vinteuil , that Elstir was modelled in considerable part on Monet . |
| 14 | RANGERS manager Walter Smith last night paid tribute to his ‘ unsung hero of Ibrox , ’ Scott Nisbet , the scorer of the goal that keeps the Scottish champions in with a chance of a European Cup final place , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 15 | Throughout the war theatre , the centre that suffered the most was probably Kuwait City , both from being captured in August 1990 and retaken by the Allies the following February and from the Iraqi presence in between . |
| 16 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |
| 17 | Other countries use bells to summon people to church but only the English go in for that cascading sound from a ring of six or more bells — ‘ change ringing ’ . |
| 18 | The extended portions in between have about 40 monomers units all in the trans conformation . |
| 19 | If they did n't take the wrong people in at the end . |
| 20 | If we get the wrong people in . |
| 21 | During the French Revolution in about 1790 , mathematicians and scientists in France worked out a new system of measurement . |
| 22 | Is that when you actually sit down and you you know we if we were to actually cross out the words that were sexist in the service book , you know , er and put the non-sexist alternatives in . |
| 23 | If I get the darn thing in . |
| 24 | Eileen had been horrified , sure it would give them both their death of cold to let the fresh air in at night . |
| 25 | Rivers in Donegal also need a lot more rain to bring the fresh fish in . |
| 26 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 27 | Forty five minutes three quarters of an hour , nought point seven five and all the different calculations in between fifty minutes is about nought point that 's nought eight , that 's nought nine so it 'd be nought point eight one , two |
| 28 | He loved Encyclopaedias ; especially the ones with the old pictures in , and he knew the names of every single one in the library . |
| 29 | And then plenty of straw and everything and put the old vixen in and the cubs and some food for and then the old erm the old er erm what did they used to call it ? |
| 30 | Potent creatures swam in the dark sub-ocean in between worlds . |