Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 2 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 3 | You know there might ha , there might have been three hundred ya , three hundred yards of houses semis and detached and they had a bit of land , but all the back of that , that was theirs ! |
| 4 | An emphasis upon such occasions , taken in conjunction with the opinion surveys , could lead to the son of conclusion proposed by Shils and Young ( 1975 ) : the British people love their monarchy and this love is expressed during coronations and suchlike ceremonies with an intensity which borders on the mystical and which strengthens the sense of national community . |
| 5 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 6 | Mother 's own experience as a child had taught her to be self-sufficient and she needed a lot of support and practice at learning how to meet Maria 's emotional and social needs . |
| 7 | At outcrop the sandstones are visibly porous and they provide a good aquifer in the Belfast region . |
| 8 | His voice was calm and he had a definite southern accent . |
| 9 | Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money . |
| 10 | ‘ The assurances are OK and we have no intention of either looking elsewhere or altering our original itinerary , ’ Smith said . |
| 11 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 12 | Her fears were groundless and she slid the door back . |
| 13 | I go down and get me paper and take it back up , we have a teasmade and we have a cup of tea and |
| 14 | He thought it was funny and who needs a Mary Poppins LP , a Beatles poster , a sequinned belt , anyway . |
| 15 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 16 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 17 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 18 | Now John was not afraid to tell somebody as great as John that he was wrong and I see no reason why this general assembly should be afraid or inhibited about telling the authorities that they are wrong . |
| 19 | To imagine that there is er a great undercurrent of violence inside our football grounds is now quite wrong and I think the game is n't getting enough credit for the way in which it 's tackled it . |
| 20 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 21 | Everyone is keen to see otter , but again they prove elusive and we round the north of the island with nothing other than a few passing gannet , some tysties and shags and a couple of rabbits spotted among the peaty banks . |
| 22 | The government 's moves to widen abortion and to extend the principle of co-determination in industry both caused controversy , yet Schmidt 's personal popularity remained high and he survived the test of the October 1976 election . |
| 23 | Pitch your bid too high and you run the risk of driving your opponent away from the negotiating table . |
| 24 | Here is what you must memorise : These words are Latin and they form the basis of the secret to this trick . |
| 25 | Oh that juice , you know when erm they 're six weeks old and you get the bounty packs ? |
| 26 | I was then sixty-four years old and I started a business again as John |
| 27 | ever so old and I lost the thing |
| 28 | As you all know , he is now free and we hope the other hostages will soon be free too . |
| 29 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 30 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |