Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't acknowledge an Eternal Verity if one came up and smacked her in the chops . |
| 2 | Inside the house they discovered 22month-old Penny and her mother Robyn Thrower , 25 , on the floor . |
| 3 | Bosses snub brainy Steven because he is deaf and blind |
| 4 | Architecture in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert ( £50 ) covers the letterpress articles and selected engravings from the twenty-eight-volume Encyclopédie and its seven-volume supplement . |
| 5 | It 's a lazy Saturday and I decide to go for a walk in Cwm Idwal . |
| 6 | You 'd dearly love to claim them as one of ours , the latest American band to owe an unpayable debt to Brit-rock 's influence — in this case My Bloody Valentine and what that yanks dozily call ‘ Dream Pop ’ — but that would be too simple . |
| 7 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 8 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 9 | Yes , thanks to your incredibly generous friends at Public NME and our willingness to sleep with anyone for the sake of our readers , we 've got 20 copies of ‘ Bleach ’ , the classic debut set from Nirvana , to give away . |
| 10 | So Lady , we 've never found any gentlemen old enough to play old William because he was in his seventies at this time , we never found an old gentleman play William , Robert Hardy 's not quite old enough . |
| 11 | They put me in touch with a few other people in nearby Sheffield and we arranged to have a tentative first meeting in someone 's flat . |
| 12 | Christ no , it 's not like the Wellport days , back when : poor old Tod and his one-man no-shows , his lone fiascos . |
| 13 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 14 | This in turn may have given rise to the high temperature metamorphism and calc-alkaline intrusions of the southern part of the Scottish Highlands and their prolongation in Ireland . |
| 15 | He made a mistake of two percentage points in a price for steering-boxes for British Leyland before his head cleared . |
| 16 | The dominant tree in the High Weald where there are clay soils is also the pedunculate oak , but where sandy soils predominate the sessile oak ( Quercus petraea ) is well represented . |
| 17 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 18 | So the theorist so the theorists actually best from activities where something can actually give them a system , a model or a theory or a concept so we 've got Andy and John and it was quite interesting Andy when you were saying well whose work is this because you not really behind so you , you actually scored thirteen on that one . |
| 19 | Pension mortgages and this mortgage and and he did n't really know how er er cos that that foreign Lucy or whatever her name was |
| 20 | There were in fact three different Cuzcos that I could see . |
| 21 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |
| 22 | Much further south , Orlando in Florida has become popular for family holidays because of nearby DisneyWorld and plenty of golf for mum and dad . |
| 23 | Deflections consistent with EADs have in fact been recorded from the hearts of patients with idiopathic LQTS and their amplitude was increased by adrenaline administration . |
| 24 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 25 | Baker has also said that every system must be compatible , through its head end , with the trunk networks laid by British Telecom and its private sector competitor , Mercury . |
| 26 | Alright , he invested the money that he received as a gratuity from British Telecom when he was made redundant . |
| 27 | It is pensioners in particular who paid for British Telecom when it was owned by the State their taxes ensured that the telephone system in the U K , it became amongst the best in the world . |
| 28 | At seven-thirty the Prime Minister was expecting Kenneth Clarke and John Patten , together with silly old Webb-Bowen and his minder . |
| 29 | ‘ What I want to grieve is the old Maurice before he was laid so humiliatingly low by whatever it was — a stroke , a deprivation of oxygen , an act of God — we 'll never know . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is because I was married on November 5 , and all the way down to a miserable , wet Bournemouth where we spent our honeymoon , there were village bonfires set out ready . |