Example sentences of "[adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 2 | I was grateful the bar was empty . |
| 3 | And Celia comes and she 's cheerful and she does the admin with them , she organizes it and I just personally I 'm just so grateful the best thing which has happened to me . |
| 4 | Glamorgan , needing 427 to win after starting the day on a 16 for three , were grateful the weather permitted only 17.1 overs . |
| 5 | Adopted without a vote on Nov. 22 , part B of Resolution 44/27 expressed the conviction that the system of apartheid could not be reformed and had to be eliminated , leading to the establishment of a united , non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 6 | She unplugged the fridge and opened the door intending to let the fridge defrost . |
| 7 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 8 | Juliette finished her task , put the trousers on a wooden hanger , hooked it over the back of a chair and unplugged the iron . |
| 9 | She unplugged the telephone and disconnected the doorbell , resolutely shutting herself off from the world as she manipulated her characters like pieces in a board game , reading their thoughts , putting speech into their mouths , controlling their destinies . |
| 10 | She unplugged the percolator . |
| 11 | The trio of vessels ( with a combined weight less than one of today 's jumbo jets ) passed the tip of a small island where it was dear the two oceans ' waters met — the point is now named Crosstides — and through the Paso Tortuosa . |
| 12 | Rather dear the shirt . |
| 13 | She unbuckled the yellowlegs ’ gunbelt , and cinched it around her hips . |
| 14 | He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door . |
| 15 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 16 | You was in a right moody the other day when I told you |
| 17 | Er it 's Norman the town crier at Leicester . |
| 18 | In Walford v Miles the House of Lords maintained the long established principle that a mere agreement to negotiate is unenforceable because it lacks the certainty necessary for a binding contract and held that any concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations . |
| 19 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 20 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the December inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher intervened and said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 21 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 22 | If you take a sample er , of ce the cera cereblis fluid during the course of acute bacteria meningitis you will find it 's drowning , drowning , not due the fact that it 's an organism , but present , being due to the presence of puss cells . |
| 23 | You are due the grateful thanks of the entire Catholic Community which , as you know , is very appreciative of their priests . |
| 24 | well see how , but I 'm saying it 'll be due , it 'll be due the same , the same |
| 25 | The killing of Estrada , who had been captured but released unharmed the previous month [ see p. 37372 ] , was believed to be the work of the Medellín drug cartel ; however , as in the previous killings of three leading presidential candidates [ see pp. 36844 ; 37312 ; 37371-72 ] , right-wing paramilitary groups were also suspected . |
| 26 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 27 | The Commons wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law , so that every landowner should have the right of free chase in his own lands and woods . |
| 28 | the quicker this happens , the more cost-effective the insulation is . |
| 29 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 30 | ‘ You remember how shy the father of Moseh was when Hamed 's father put the proposal ? |