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 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 4 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 5 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It explains in part why I hold the political philosophies I do . |
| 9 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | now I 've got the mini ones I can play some new chords you see |
| 12 | ‘ Well , apart from the potted shrimps I think I can assure you , Inspector , that one way and another all the other dishes were shared . ’ |
| 13 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 14 | In his usual way , as soon as the film started , George begin to give me a run down on the technical assets I might otherwise be missing . |
| 15 | Of the surviving compositors I interviewed , one was from a family of 9 children , another from one of 8 , one had at least three sisters , and the last was one of only two , whose father had died young . |
| 16 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 17 | I have to say there was one piece information I picked up yesterday asking and we 're talking about the rural areas I think in this discussion , the rural viability , rather then er urban . |
| 18 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
| 19 | If you produce the right designs I 'll use them . |
| 20 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 21 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 22 | Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series . |
| 23 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 24 | Like most of the Peruvian children I had seen , the toddler appeared self-sufficient already . |
| 25 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 26 | As I walked back through the ballroom past the seated guests I saw my wife , daughter and son waving and smiling and waved back , relieved that it was all over . |
| 27 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 28 | Following the usual exchanges I enquired how long they 'd been there . |
| 29 | I mean the Scottish boys I mean they always wanted the big end of the stick you see ? |
| 30 | The broken states I have named are in a condition of near ruin . |