Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 2 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 3 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 4 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 6 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 7 | Plants have little specific focus for mind energy , such as we see it in the brain and central nervous system of insects and higher species . |
| 8 | The one exception to that doleful list of Labour Governments who doubled unemployment during their term of office saw unemployment increase by 50 per cent . |
| 9 | In there I have to be courteous but I 'll never forget that you and that bloody rogue of a servant were the last to see my clerk alive ! ’ |
| 10 | Yeah but you may spend that bloody standing at end of a bloody airfield here thinking nothing 's been done . |
| 11 | and er anyway our Dawn says I 'm not paying all that bloody money for babe to rip it off for when |
| 12 | ‘ Do you have to wear that bloody garment in the house ? |
| 13 | And where can you get that bloody kind of money , only corner . |
| 14 | ‘ As for Mowbray , he had that bloody parchment on him and the fragments of a seed cake . |
| 15 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had enough of that bloody scrump for one night , ’ he growled . |
| 17 | I said no I had that bloody cup of coffee you made . |
| 18 | ‘ Gallagher made Luke confess in front of about twenty witnesses — that bloody rabble from the pub and the cottages . ’ |
| 19 | Do you swallow that bloody smoke from them buggers . |
| 20 | He 's dropped that bloody bag on my foot with all them tins in it ! |
| 21 | He himself , wounded , had been led off that bloody hill by his own esquire . |
| 22 | Look how much it cost us to go to that bloody restaurant with Chris and Keith |
| 23 | I ca n't see in that bloody fridge for love nor money . |
| 24 | He would drag that bloody friar from his stars and they would go back to the Springall mansion and this time demand answers to their questions . |
| 25 | Du n no what that is , I mean oh we have n't got a clue , he 's not got a clue on car , do n't know where he 's got that bloody lot from , so besides other things that want checking for MOT , I think he wants them to check |
| 26 | This hole , which runs parallel to the 10th , is not that long ( 420 yards ) , but that downhill run of nearly 60 feet now has to be traversed in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | At first sight it is absurd to propose that Islamic socialization of the economy required the nihil obstat of everyone 's mother-in-law . |
| 28 | Simon , in his answer , had indicated that there was little political activity between elections . |
| 29 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 30 | The SNM is a ragged band of fighters with little political ideology beyond the expulsion of President Barre 's forces from northern Somalia and the overthrow of his 20-year-old government . |