Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 2 | That bloody awful feller she 's with . |
| 3 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 4 | ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’ |
| 5 | Or is that another small point you 've failed to notice ? ’ she added bitterly . |
| 6 | ‘ And when I do , my lady , we 'll get back to that interesting little conversation we were having . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That distinguished old gent I 've noticed in your company is the author of ‘ Jottings ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | " This tall fair man I spotted last night " |
| 9 | Martinque richly deserves its nickname of ‘ island of flowers ’ and against the background of this lush tropical island I tried my hand at water-skiing for the first time . |
| 10 | Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare 's plays to include Anglo-Saxon characters ; and by some odd stylistic response it too is full of this ancient ( but still popular ) rhetorical device . |
| 11 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |
| 12 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |
| 13 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 14 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 15 | sloppy kisses and this this little girl we had sloppy kisses ooh that 's mucky , that 's just for babies . |
| 16 | We heard earlier on about this this this regimental bath I think they call it , this bath of excreta and urine and bleach and the brigadier and David Lightbown said how rare this was , er did you ever see it ? |
| 17 | Broad head , broad face , fair complexion , blonde hair , blueish-grey eyes and this funny concave nose I have . ’ |
| 18 | Was this some indigent artist he had picked up with in Paris ? |
| 19 | And the driver wanted to get even more friendly with some exciting young women they 'd picked up earlier . |
| 20 | as if this was some peculiar new word he 'd not heard before . |
| 21 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 22 | Oh well it 's gon na be another forty five minutes I must admit I have sympathy for the people who are going to listen to this . |
| 23 | I 've got some amazing new music I 'd like you to hear . |
| 24 | In this simple illustrative case we avoid decimals . |
| 25 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 26 | Through our branch network of some 2,000 retail branches we can deal with all cash requirements on both small and large scales . |
| 27 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 28 | But when we stopped in Bahrain out in Hong Kong , well when we got into Hong Kong , you get this little tiny cup it 's about an eighth of the size of that bloody thing , and it 's thick and it 's horrible , their coffee . |
| 29 | You do n't know you might end up with this this little old chap you 're with . |
| 30 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |