Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In a right old sweat he was , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee tranquilly . |
| 2 | A right miserable pair they are . |
| 3 | A right little pedant she can be , when it comes to an intellectual argument . |
| 4 | just breathing ; a dry electric wind you could hear a mile off . |
| 5 | This is a private little shop you know and her mother kept this little shop , mother long since dead you know . |
| 6 | When you purchase a fifty millesimal potency you should receive a bottle of poppy seed sized granules . |
| 7 | With a helpless little movement she sat up , drawing up her knees and hugging them as if in some way she might glean comfort from the gesture . |
| 8 | The barn was not full , but in some of the stalls on either side of a broad central aisle he could see heaped mountains of grain as his eyes became accustomed to the dark . |
| 9 | As his face disappears behind a pungent blue cloud he relaxes into a deep wreathed smile of satisfaction . |
| 10 | Now at last a brazen middle-aged hussy I inveigled my way right into the engine room , sweating with delight as I sketched shining brass , ratcheted levers and big end bearings . |
| 11 | In a strong khaki handkerchief he kept his money , the handful of coins he had managed to save or pilfer and hide away in spite of Sweetheart 's threats that she would always find him out if he tried to lie or keep wicked secrets from her . |
| 12 | Whilst the hillside location creates a strong visual impact it also provides practical uses . |
| 13 | To contemplate death may be scary , but for those with a strong religious faith it can be almost exciting . |
| 14 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 15 | Remember that the spine is flexible , and that in a normal upright posture it describes a shallow double-S curve . |
| 16 | And she 's o she 's gone on to have a , a normal little boy you see ? |
| 17 | The older Colonel beamed about him and Hope tried to execute yet another manoeuvre with Miss D'Arcy — to get her to conspire ( silently of course and with the finest subtlety ) with him against her guardian so that the two of them could be saying ‘ what a dear old gentleman he is ’ and use this to draw closer together . |
| 18 | Sometimes he thought about Adam when he was a child and what a dear little boy he had been , affectionate and not troublesome . |
| 19 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 20 | Well , Paul , as a respectable married man it 's high time you went home . |
| 21 | ‘ Piper , it 's a bloody good job you were not wearing your kilt last night during the patrol . ’ |
| 22 | That 's a bloody good job I did n't have a booking for it . |
| 23 | Crunching riffs , frantic sneer , a sound so chewy that Rowntrees are currently sticking it under the microscope to see if it can be put into a crisp candy coat , and a bloody horrible noise it all is . |
| 24 | However , as knowledge becomes increasingly use-specific , its portability declines , perhaps so much so that by the time it is embodied in a specific new product it can only spill over to producers of very similar substitute products . |
| 25 | But particularly in the absence of a coherent professional philosophy it is reasonable to suppose that social and occupational origins also play an important part in shaping judicial attitudes to imprisonment in this country . |
| 26 | A tall thin guy I had seen in the house before crawled on all fours in front of the television to get at Nicola 's joint . |
| 27 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 28 | ‘ Your father did n't warn me quite what a striking young woman you had grown into , ’ the Princesse said in English with a wry glint in her eye . |
| 29 | " And a damn sad answer you 'll get . |
| 30 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |