Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you see the people in your mind 's eye-their facial expressions ? the colour of their clothes ? |
| 2 | Ye can sing like Judy Garland Ye can whistle like Lauren Bacall Yir lovelier than Liz-beth Taylor But still yir worth — ( Interrupted by the sleazy pinstriped figure of Mr King ) |
| 3 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 4 | ‘ My eight-year-old brother is really jealous and wanted to know why he could n't come . |
| 5 | writes from , : MY eight-year-old grand-daughter Jennifer is learning a song at dancing school , The Black Bottom . |
| 6 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 7 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 8 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 9 | Well , my flatmate Cherry drinks like a fish , but then , so do I. |
| 10 | My hesitant companion said , ‘ May I drink to your health without necessarily wishing to listen to your conversation ? |
| 11 | Two hundred dollars in American Express traveller 's cheques missing , their numbers in my stolen bag . |
| 12 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
| 13 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 14 | If all else fails this usually works and thus my eye fell upon my indoor tank , beneath the window , and currently occupied by six Uaru amphiacanthoides . |
| 15 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 16 | I have discovered that using the water from my tank on both my indoor and outdoor plants promotes tremendous new growth — four inches on my camellia and three inches on my rubber plant . |
| 17 | His thumb and forefinger pinched the sides of my neck , one big pad pressing into my carotid artery . |
| 18 | We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals . |
| 19 | My conflicting thoughts argued with each other from pavement to pavement . |
| 20 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 21 | My rich , dark Trappist practically knocked me for six at lunchtime , while a deep red cherry beer , Kriek , tasted like alcoholic cough mixture . |
| 22 | This thought , that the given cause of the wine 's being cool is not in or of itself a means , is reinforced by the truth , among others , that the given cause is precisely not a means to my idiosyncratic drinking companion , who likes his Haut Poitou uncooled . |
| 23 | My finishing-school clothes list : One pair plimsolls , one pair best silk stockings , one Liberty bodice , amen , we give Thee most humble and hearty thanks , we Thine unworthy servants . |
| 24 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 25 | ‘ Our relationship can be measured in hours , my strange beauty . |
| 26 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 27 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 28 | BELVILLE : [ sitting ] Well , my strange dear , what is your question ? |
| 29 | The driver noticed my strange appearance and could not help laughing . |
| 30 | The servants smiled when they saw my strange appearance . |