Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 2 | To Ajax he says : ‘ I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an ’ I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece' ( 27ff . ) . |
| 3 | I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece . |
| 4 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 5 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 6 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 7 | There 's nothing the right colour at all . |
| 8 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 9 | He did nearly nothing the whole game . |
| 10 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 11 | She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements . |
| 12 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 13 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 14 | As one planner told SAVE , ‘ A few letters from potential purchasers asking about a neglected listed building gives me the necessary ammunition to persuade my council to serve a Repairs Notice on the owner . ’ |
| 15 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 16 | If you give me the necessary details , I 'll fill in the order-form . ’ |
| 17 | PEOPLE send me the funniest letters . |
| 18 | This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ . |
| 19 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 20 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 21 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 22 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 23 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 24 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 25 | That 's what got me the two years inside , pal . |
| 26 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 27 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 28 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 29 | For me the European theatre is where it 's at — a physical art rooted in the circus . ’ |
| 30 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |