Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why was such a well-dressed man using a brothel like the City of Dreams ? |
| 2 | When I entered Miss Havisham 's room , there was a well-dressed lady sitting with her . |
| 3 | Walk down the high street of any of Europe 's capitals and you are bound to spot many a well-dressed woman carrying her Mulberry . |
| 4 | ‘ Autobahn ’ seeped into the ears of a pre-punk generation to emerge , fully formed , in the 1980s as electro-pop and avant-garde synth music . |
| 5 | Our simple model of 1975 showed that a white hole with the mass of a star can explain a galactic gamma-ray burst 10 seconds long . |
| 6 | The plot centred on mankind 's confrontation with a Galactic enemy called the Diaboli . |
| 7 | A bleached patch appeared suddenly around his mouth , but his tone did n't change . |
| 8 | Then comes the dreaded five hour pro-am , a pre-tournament warm-up handled well by certain professionals able to " small talk " but handled disastrously by others , more introverted , or sulky — depending on your view , or team score ! |
| 9 | A disheartened army continued towards Taunton where , hearing of the superior army approaching from London , Warbeck slipped away . |
| 10 | Trainees may find it a humbling exercise to draw up their own household budget using current benefit rates as their sole income . |
| 11 | Since the advent of a car-ferry system connecting Denmark , Norway , Shetland , Faroe and Iceland , it has become easier for me to take a vehicle over and , because the ferry terminus in Iceland is in one of the eastern fiords called Seyðisfjördur — see data capture sheet , this has given me the opportunity of exploring the north and east coast of Iceland in greater detail . |
| 12 | This discovery brings together two rapidly advancing fields by demonstrating that a tumour-suppressor gene plays an essential role in the induction of programmed cell death . |
| 13 | Mr Mulrine said the latest application was for a single-storey extension containing eight bedrooms to be built onto the existing farmhouse , with access for drivers from the busy A68 . |
| 14 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 15 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 16 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
| 17 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 18 | Lindsey was putting the finishing touches to her notes when someone tapped at the door and a dark-haired girl popped her head round . |
| 19 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 20 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you any lamb chops ? ’ a dark-haired woman enquired . |
| 22 | A lanky girl with a moody look walked in , strolled self-consciously over to the table and took a tangerine from a bowl . |
| 23 | A moody silence descended between brother and sister , and after a judicious interval , Belinda painted a smile on her face and joined them , hoping her cheeks were not as flushed as they felt . |
| 24 | Boots with a cut-away heel tend to do less damage than traditionally-patterned ones , but walkers need to develop a new style of walking when using them , particularly on steep ground . |
| 25 | But old habits die hard and I did n't do anything of the sort , but sat there pleasantly planning my new wardrobe , with the clothing coupons and the sum of money that a grateful Government had allowed me . |
| 26 | A grateful warmth spreads out through Howard 's head from his telephone ear . |
| 27 | He looks at me as if I am crazy , and watches a grateful cat dragging the carcass to a safe distance with disapproval . |
| 28 | A grateful Hankin said : ‘ We have a mountain to climb , but I am looking forward to the challenge . ’ |
| 29 | Certainly , no-one devising a system of government for a late twentieth-century industrial democracy would give the right to alter legislation to a group of people whose only qualification is the fact that at some time in the dim and distant past a grateful monarch rewarded the loyalty , bravery , intrigue , obsequiousness or blackmail of an ancestor with the grant of a title and the profits of plunder . |
| 30 | A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents — including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock . |