Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 3 | The negative reactions have the opposite aim : ‘ that nothing of the forgotten traumas shall be remembered and nothing repeated ’ . |
| 4 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 5 | Lucy drove , deft competent hands guiding them through the suburbs , Jay lit cigarettes for them both , a secret kiss at the tip of each one ; houses blurred past beyond Lucy 's profile . |
| 6 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 7 | Secondly , assistance and information is offered to these firms , guiding them through the planning and development process , and offering advice on a range of issues from education and housing to estate agents and government grants . |
| 8 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 9 | I have met women who epitomize the ‘ good mother ’ ; they genuinely love and care for their children and give them a great deal of attention , playing with them and guiding them in a way that most of us feel we can never emulate . |
| 10 | Her brother Jeff was guiding them alongside the jetty now . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 12 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 13 | I 'm afraid nothing of the sort is hidden from him . |
| 14 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 15 | 5.18.2 Nothing in the preceding clause shall entitle the Tenant to withhold or delay any payment of the rents or any other sum due under this Lease after the date upon which they fall due or in any way prejudice affect or derogate from the rights of the Landlord in relation to such non-payment including ( but without prejudice to the generality of the above ) under the proviso for re-entry contained in this Lease The period of grace before interest bites will be a matter of negotiation between the landlord and the tenant . |
| 16 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 17 | We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 18 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 19 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 20 | It is not clear which of the pair put these points to Attlee . |
| 21 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 22 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 23 | Figure 7.5 Which of a pair of male sticklebacks wins in a territorial dispute depends on where the fight takes place , as a simple experiment by Niko Tinbergen demonstrates . |
| 24 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 25 | Most libraries have wall charts guiding you to the shelf groupings for the major Dewey divisions . |
| 26 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 27 | From right beside Lawton something huge detached itself from the shadows . |
| 28 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 29 | There was the stand of palms , but not the conspicuous one to the north . |
| 30 | There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw ; a conspicuous spine-like one on the oral plate and a smaller scale-like one on the adoral plate which may be missing in some specimens ( see Madsen , 1970 : 179–181 for a discussion of this character ) . |