Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The extended portions in between have about 40 monomers units all in the trans conformation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He loved Encyclopaedias ; especially the ones with the old pictures in , and he knew the names of every single one in the library . |
| 8 | The fit and competent should cross the 360 kilometres in about seven days . |
| 9 | She fetched a cardboard box left over from her last shopping trip , lined it with an old towel and put the tiny creatures in . |
| 10 | Well I do n't put the white flowers in with them . |
| 11 | A bad mistake by the linesman cost Witney the three points in today 's battle against fellow strugglers Canterbury City at Marriots Close . |
| 12 | Nests I found when I was clearing the garden , put the little eggs in and they 'd all gone cold . |
| 13 | The Left elements in she new Socialist League were not too enthusiastic about joining their former ILP colleagues in collaborating with the Communists . |
| 14 | Despite regular clashes between the leading figures in AT and VPE , Lalonde and Fernex , Lalonde is keeping a low profile . |
| 15 | The ‘ statue ’ metaphor which is so chilling in ‘ The Missing ’ ; the balance of the mental conflicts in ‘ In Time of Plague ’ which never sways to either side and leaves the question unanswered : the twist in the tale of ‘ The Reassurance ’ with its bitter irony . |
| 16 | You always go building , we gutted right from ground floor , left the existing walls in . |
| 17 | There 'd be a space on the wall , perhaps small fridge , one of those small little ones , so you can just put the bare essentials in . |
| 18 | ‘ I wanted to use the presence of the guitar more aggressively , ’ says Lindsey , ‘ not only in solos and in the classical bits in between some of the songs , but in terms of what was actually driving the songs . |
| 19 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 20 | I 'll give give you that was a bag for the put bananas in . |
| 21 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 22 | On a used cylinder head it is usual to ‘ pin ’ the hot spots in before skimming and replacing the head . |
| 23 | We stayed all day , suffering short drenching showers of rain and drying out in the hot spells in between . |
| 24 | But you could have er , be er could now be referring to a different row that happens to have the same numbers in . |
| 25 | He was also a gifted ad-libber in his sermons , and good ad-libs are one of the vital ingredients in Through The Keyhole ( ITV , Friday , 7pm ) . |
| 26 | Bringing the big boys in under a UN flag is exposing a clash of styles ; they tend to have their own way of doing things and there is pressure on the organisation to conform . |
| 27 | We usually puts the single ladies in to share bunks . |
| 28 | And put the thick ones in . |
| 29 | Put the other ones in . |
| 30 | Er medical practices er which is the company , erm do it slightly different than other er the other companies in for training . |