Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're doing both then that 's your total income and if you did that in three weeks I would think you 'd be very happy with that . |
| 2 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 3 | And in a lot of marriages the wife 's total responsibility and if it was n't done she is the one responsible . |
| 4 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 5 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 6 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 7 | Zeinab had set it up for Owen to meet her theatrical friends at their usual cafe and as she and Owen turned into the square , there they were , occupying their usual tables on the edge of the pavement . |
| 8 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 9 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 10 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 11 | men using the wo er , female genitalia as a a derogatory term and if we actually go back to the roots of that word erm , to me it 's like basic shows you what misogyny 's about the actual root of that word it means , seat of power . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's beautifully shown in the Catholic Mass when erm they say well it 's , through my fault , through my fault , through my most grievous fault and where you strike your own breast . |
| 13 | Yes it was it was a very coarse fabric and if you 'd got animals they te it tended to claw . |
| 14 | The CDP has hitherto resisted such a proposal on the grounds that it would represent direct competition with university applicants who might thereby fail to see the polytechnics as a clear alternative and because it would restrict student choice to a limited number of institutions . |
| 15 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 16 | ‘ David Harrison was convinced that he would have won with a clear run and while it 's hard to be definite about that , he would certainly have been placed . ’ |
| 17 | The Home Office publishes a leaflet ( BN7 ) giving detailed guidance on the requirements for individuals seeking British nationality and if you have any competitors who intend to compete internationally and who might fall into this category , then you should ensure that an early clarification of nationality is sought . |
| 18 | She was not the dependent type and if she had to go it alone then so be it . |
| 19 | Owen was , he was aware , a hired man and not a member of the charmed social circle and if he wanted to get things done he had to do it indirectly by tweaking the inner social system . |
| 20 | Her mother went to a nearby shop and when she returned 15 minutes later , Kathleen was nowhere to be found . |
| 21 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 22 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 23 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 24 | Stalin was usually cautious and calculating in his foreign policy and if he bided his time , Korea would almost certainly fall into the Soviet orbit . |
| 25 | Already there was a very steep drop and as she looked up her heart almost stopped . |
| 26 | Yawning ponderously , he put Clytemnestra outside the back door and while he waited for her , stood staring emptily at the cloudless , star-filled sky . |
| 27 | He was ‘ virtually the general of a powerful and willing army and if he is a wise man , his opportunities for good will be as large as the sphere he occupies ’ . |
| 28 | In a case involving a sum of money the property of a foreign state and whether it is proper that it should be paid to a firm of solicitors whose authority to act on behalf of that state is in question , the court should , with the assistance of an amicus if necessary , decline to make an order for the payment out of a sum in court to a firm of solicitors without being satisfied of the authority of that firm of solicitors . |
| 29 | they include the sub-let space and where we sub-let space we deduct that space from the trading area figure |
| 30 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |