Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home . |
| 2 | Cityscape , Hight Corners , and Terraces , has plenty of examples and demonstrations as well as introduces specific technical considerations and encourages us to look at and study architectural characteristics . |
| 3 | It 's preparing and packing up two complete racing operations and sending them to competitions in Indonesia and New Zealand . |
| 4 | We must put it in the hands of trained Islamic scholars and get them to run tests on it . |
| 5 | Earlier the prince met top Korean businessmen and urged them to heed the teaching of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius by balancing economics with the protection of the planet . |
| 6 | Image Stylist , Kim dressed Russell in some fabulous clothes and armed him with chocs from Rococo . |
| 7 | Instead , it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is . |
| 8 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 9 | His main hobby is to take derelict old buildings and convert them into habitable homes that are monuments to the Conran design credo . |
| 10 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 11 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 12 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 13 | You 'll have to make some little baps and bring them |
| 14 | There was unrest in some twenty-six English and Welsh towns on 20 October , the day of George 's coronation , by which time the new monarch had already begun to turn out the old Tory ministers and replace them by Whigs . |
| 15 | To buy some guided missiles and to hide them in the ground , |
| 16 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 17 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 18 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 19 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |
| 20 | He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter , taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story ! |
| 21 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 22 | He chose four different coloured capsules and tucked them discreetly beneath his plate . |
| 23 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 24 | It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others . |
| 25 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 26 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 27 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 28 | Gorge and Mary Webster eventually had another twelve children and found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 29 | Britain should stop giving ‘ piffling ’ sums of aid to Latin American countries and help them find alternative crops . |
| 30 | I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire . |