Example sentences of "the [adj] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otis Ferguson thought the only real social comment concerned the unemployed and they were rather haphazardly brought together and in any case upstaged by a boy-girl-siren triangle hung on ‘ the back of such an old love nag as even Hollywood might be ashamed to take out for a canter ’ . |
| 2 | That 's the only snag with that , that you you can get the wrong But it 's very much way of doing it . |
| 3 | I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really . |
| 4 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 5 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 6 | At this stage it operates largely in the unconscious but it is soon partly modified by exposure to reality , that part becoming the ego . |
| 7 | The best sites are in rocks originating from sediments that accumulated in quiet , freshwater sites — lake bottoms , peat bogs and the like and they are generally rarer in marine facies . |
| 8 | Although we are often successful in securing accommodation , it is a problem which stretches our resources to the full and we are urgently raising money to buy emergency short term accommodation for people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 9 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 10 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 11 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 12 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 13 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 14 | This order came like a bolt from the blue and I 'm very grateful for it . ’ |