Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 2 | ANNADALE Striders track ace Davy Wilson raced to a superb victory in the Mackey Shield Road 10K at Ballyclare , in a record time of 28.53 . |
| 3 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 4 | got er nice little watch an Accurist watch with that money Dave sent , I thought if I do n't it 's gon na fritter away |
| 5 | I think Troon was the greatest Arnold Palmer has ever played in his life . |
| 6 | Briefly : the addition of a red jerboa or desert jumping mouse to the white-disc-in-red-square vehicle sign of the Mobile Division Egypt dates back to 1939/40 . |
| 7 | In the 1820s William Cobbett passes some beautiful parks with principled owners on his rural rides ; but these are the exceptions , for he adds , 'The labouring classes = = God knows , have very few friends amongst the rich . ’ |
| 8 | And finally , rally ace Colin McRae has achieved the best place by a British driver in any World Championship event : by finishing second in the Swedish rally . |
| 9 | Even depressed Fort William takes on a magnificence from this height as it glitters and reflects the late evening sun . |
| 10 | After they had reached that decision Michael began to cry and would not be consoled . |
| 11 | In effect , the American gentleman was putting forward the view that M. Dupont was being manipulated by his lordship and other participants at the conference ; that M. Dupont had been deliberately invited late to enable the others to discuss important topics in his absence ; that even after his arrival , it was to be observed that his lordship was conducting small private discussions with the most important delegates without inviting M. Dupont . |
| 12 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 13 | Soviet deputies moderate pace of economic change Ryzhkov takes safe route to reforms . |
| 14 | Having reached that judgement Molly felt , for the first time , one up . |
| 15 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |
| 16 | Steven Clark gave himself up just hours after five-months ' pregnant Kelly Hitchcock died . |
| 17 | Since 1991 , European Heritage Day has been celebrated across Europe by people keen to preserve their culture and heritage . |
| 18 | That brute Cullam fetched him a fourpenny one , poor little devil . |
| 19 | Railway workers at the state-owned Ferrocarrilles Argentinos began an indefinite strike on Feb. 5 , demanding a wage increase of 200 per cent and threatening to resist a government threat to use the army to break the strike . |
| 20 | SUMPTUOUS : The mansion near Wentworth that conman Lee bought with his crooked deals |
| 21 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 22 | — BOWLS ace Ian Peacock has been named as Clubman of the Year at Leadgate WMC . |
| 23 | ‘ That arsehole Etienne had stored the TARDIS in his armoury , and I thought it would be best not to waste the time we had in there . |
| 24 | The truth was that General Winstanley did quite a lot for Jack . |
| 25 | The US Senator Jesse Helms said in Washington yesterday he had reports from Panama that General Noriega had personally shot dead Major Giroldi , the commander of the ‘ Urraca ’ company charged with defending the Defence Force headquarters from where the uprising was launched . |
| 26 | ‘ Does n't that General Midwinter have style ? ’ she said . |
| 27 | Hetton professional Dipak Sharma grabbed 7–43 as Langley Park were bowled out for 103 , Fred Eastaugh taking 3–30 . |
| 28 | That Ben Braithwaite had most ardently desired her was beyond question . |
| 29 | Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed . |
| 30 | Writing in 1935 Ivor Jennings suggested that Dicey 's ‘ authority today is greater than that of any other public lawyer ’ . |