Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 2 | We 've got one corner of the garden out the front and if the wind 's in the right direction it neatly puts them all together . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 4 | Mosley repeatedly argued that his Blackshirt organization was a self-defence force and that although he could have disrupted other political meetings he never chose to do so . |
| 5 | Bernard I think it 's up that lane you just come down . |
| 6 | Ultimately when time reduces our prized telescope to some orphaned lenses adrift in a little heap of metallic oxide we sadly shake our heads over the debris and say ‘ this was a telescope ’ , or , in Pythonesque terms , ‘ this is an ex-telescope ’ . |
| 7 | In each case they inevitably begin to denigrate their opposite numbers for not doing ‘ real police work ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Worst damn decision I ever made , ’ said John Frome , straightening himself and blinking his eyes . |
| 9 | That is an important concession but one which will be wasted if the Government does not accept that part it now has to play . |
| 10 | In that case we firmly say make it simple and do n't aim for the moon at first try . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , in that case you just refer him to me , young lady . |
| 12 | But in that case you just take a piece of new paper and put the down and put it on the clip . |
| 13 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |
| 14 | The Via crucis ( composed some thirteen years later in 1878 ) was clearly intended as a far more imposing artistic statement , and listened to on that level it undoubtedly succeeds . |
| 15 | The one who left me that brooch you always liked . |
| 16 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 17 | There was still her car to worry about , not forgetting that interview she still had to secure , but … |
| 18 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 19 | Then we were able to make that album we always wanted to make . ’ |
| 20 | They say : He was the nicest horse I ever knew . |
| 21 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 22 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 23 | In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole . |
| 24 | Irrespective of their magnitude , whether they are big or small , in each case think about the emotional weight you once gave and still give to them . |
| 25 | To achieve anything like a professional result you still need the services of a designer to create the master pages but this is a once-off requirement for each publication . |
| 26 | Dark Star man , that , that had to be the funniest movie I ever saw , I saw it when I was about ten . |
| 27 | short sticky tape you never know , the old . . |
| 28 | In order to implement this progress we urgently need more funding , and as we are entirely dependent on private donations ask you , please to send whatever you can . |
| 29 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 30 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |