Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted . |
| 2 | Q Although I 'd love to fill my home with baskets of potpourri , ornaments , vases , dried-flower arrangements and all the accessories I often read about in Ideal Home , my problem is the children . |
| 3 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 4 | The opportunity we now presented them with was one I am convinced they would gladly at that time have done without ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 153 ) . |
| 5 | The opportunity you really want to take is on the other side of that wall and it will remain there until you manage to puncture your own pomposity . |
| 6 | I do n't know I think they 're been getting the majority they generally get . |
| 7 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 8 | Erm now Kay actually had a big er you know the stand she usually does |
| 9 | Back in the late '70s an RD Artist bass would have set you back around £800 ( Gibson UK carried an ad that read , ‘ The guitar you probably could n't play , even if you could afford one , ’ which probably did n't help its sales ! — Ed ) . |
| 10 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 11 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 12 | The prize of five hundred pounds helped me start my business and as well as meeting the Prince I now send an outfit to the young princes every year . |
| 13 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 14 | From experience you will know which of the icons you rarely use and which tools you frequently access via the menu . |
| 15 | Opting out of a policy which costs each family of four over £1,000 a year would certainly do much to help the farming industry regain the esteem it once enjoyed with the general public . |
| 16 | The masterpieces he once owned by Leonardo , Correggio , Veronese , Rubens , Holbein , Breughel , Dürer , and Titian are now scattered among the world 's major art galleries . |
| 17 | You 'll be nervous so you fill the gap with all the shit they really want to hear . ’ |
| 18 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 19 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 20 | information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it . |
| 21 | The village is not quite the paradise it once was . |
| 22 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 23 | You 're like some bitter clone of the Fernando I once knew . ’ |
| 24 | Hugh dragged food from his sack , the food the thin man had transferred from his saddle-bags and the remains of the Friar 's provisions ; whatever else lay in the bottom of the sack he carefully left there . |
| 25 | He could n't answer yes because it would n't be true — and he did n't feel confident of being able to deceive Iron Josh ; and he could n't answer no because that would reveal him as the beginner he really was . |
| 26 | This is why they do not , if they can possibly avoid it , pay the taxes the state can legitimately call for , obey the signs it reasonably puts up in the streets , and so on . |
| 27 | At the ‘ surface ’ of this black hole the pull of gravity would be about 1,600 million billion times as great as the pull we normally experience . |
| 28 | That 's the passageway we just walked down . |
| 29 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |
| 30 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |