Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 You know about that little after taste it gives you , that really saltiness gives you like a
2 ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’
3 ‘ And what about that beautiful old house you 've been unaccountably made responsible for ?
4 or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total .
5 We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total .
6 Independent financial advisers shall pay a levy of £5,000 for each independent financial adviser they employ .
7 BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire .
8 She found she could get the attention and praise she wanted only by achieving , being good and caring for that pretty little monster she so resented .
9 In the absence of geological evidence for extensive post-Hercynian igneous activity it is likely that basin inversion causing uplift is the major controlling factor for the apparent high reflectance values .
10 Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after .
11 ‘ A lot of bull about some wonderful new weapon they 'll be using
12 She packed that one in and she says she 's still doing this for another two two week I think she says and that 's erm what you call it ?
13 And so for forty long weary years they wander around as nomads in a wilderness !
14 And when I came to it was with an audible pop in the ears , and a rich consciousness of solitude , and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in , which even now was preoccupied and unconcerned , straining out over the rose bed to adjust a loose swathe of clematis on the wooden wall .
15 He says it 'll be great relief — really good because as you can see by the column of traffic now coming through this small tiny town it 's crazy .
16 On the morning after that first sexual experience we walked after breakfast up the street , past gossiping garden gates and twitching lace curtains to the fields at the top .
17 After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) .
18 You could drink some of that warm English beer you were always telling me was so good . ’
19 ‘ This would be some of that famous north-country humour I have read so much about . ’
20 There was no warmth in the kiss , no hint of that wild hot passion she remembered so vividly , just a cold , ruthless determination to make her bend to his will .
21 She thought of that queer white face she had seen , and a little shudder passed through her .
22 Through our branch network of some 2,000 retail branches we can deal with all cash requirements on both small and large scales .
23 Quite frankly My Lords , if there are forty-one constabularies throughout the c country e excluding the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police , any for instance fifty people were a applied and they may well apply because plenty of people have already done so , you would be talking about a list of some two thousand people it 's quite impossible to think that my Honourable Friend would know all these two thousand people therefore carefully select party hats who might themselves not actually have applied anyhow .
24 Knight 's Cross with Oak Leaves , a brilliant soldier , and yet he ruined his career , risked failure , everything , for the sake of some little Jewish bitch he tried to help in Warsaw .
25 Martinque richly deserves its nickname of ‘ island of flowers ’ and against the background of this lush tropical island I tried my hand at water-skiing for the first time .
26 But if the female is able to cope with all or part of this added maternal burden she can , of course , contribute even more spectacularly to the feline population explosion .
27 As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit .
28 After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss .
29 But if we could grasp some of these small particular uses we might be able to follow them back to the main river .
30 If you wish to obtain either of these more detailed reports we can request one from the surveyor or valuer we would normally use to obtain our report and mortgage valuation .
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