Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , however , he ejected a denuded Ms Lewis from their estate . |
| 2 | They were given a large slice of counties Cavan and Fermanagh , including 30,000 acres from a grateful Cromwell after Robert Saunderson led troops to a famous victory at Drogheda . |
| 3 | A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents — including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock . |
| 4 | In 1612 a grateful James VI , who made regular pilgrimages to St Duthac 's shrine at Tain , gifted the already ancient Dornoch Firth mussel fisheries to the town . |
| 5 | After the Restoration , a grateful Charles II rewarded him with a baronetcy ( the Catholic Esmondes retained the title while remaining staunch nationalists : the late Sir Anthony Esmonde is the only man with a title conferred by an English sovereign to have sat in Dail Eireann , the Irish parliament ) . |
| 6 | Instead the editor — also known as Lady Lloyd since her husband got his knighthood thanks to a grateful Margaret Thatcher — replied to Anne with her own statement . |
| 7 | City had a great chance to go ahead after 33 minutes but Carlyle , with only the keeper to beat , shot weakly at a grateful Henderson . |
| 8 | It shows an exasperated Royal — we do n't know which , since only a hand is visible — wondering how to store the vast pile of gifts from a grateful Canada . |
| 9 | Far from arriving at Exeter College , Oxford , in April 1944 as a grateful Jude the Obscure , he roared into the University apparently ready for anybody . |
| 10 | It seemed strange , to have that old pamphlet by me , that tiny piece of a long-past England that had found its way to this Greek island , these pine trees , this pagan earth . |
| 11 | Objectors say a holiday village that 's being planned near a historic Cotswold village could ruin the whole character of the area . |
| 12 | A HISTORIC Wirral landmark , rescued from dereliction by a local company , is to be officially opened by Baroness Chalker . |
| 13 | Local people have taken part in a mass trespass to protest the building of Britain 's biggest dump on a historic Yorkshire site . |
| 14 | Take this one , for example ; walking along the canal towpath at this late hour of the night , as if it was the park on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and life held no dangers for him at all . |
| 15 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 16 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 17 | Now he decided to move to Bearsden , a pleasant Glasgow suburb north of the city . |
| 18 | Richard Gittins I , a rich Shrewsbury tanner , had arrived as tenant of Eagle Farm by 1528 , when he was one of the jurors of the manor court . |
| 19 | Mozart composed his Haffner Serenade for the wedding of Elisabeth Haffner , daughter of a rich Salzburg merchant . |
| 20 | He was brought up by his widowed mother and her elderly Catholic lodger , Martha Freeman , daughter of a rich West Indian planter , and at the age of sixteen he was articled to an apothecary in Wells , Somerset . |
| 21 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 22 | Mr Chambers ' solicitor advised him to try a medium-sized London firm . |
| 23 | A beaming Ferguson opened yesterday 's Old Trafford press conference with the words , ‘ Mon plaisir presenter Eric Cantona . ’ |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine , the Board of Trade President , joyfully grasped Mr Major 's arm and a beaming Chancellor Norman Lamont leaped to his feet to join in the celebration . |
| 25 | Beneath it were a photograph of a beaming Ruby Dobby and a few hundred words about her having a psychic revelation that Sniffy Wilson was near London and trying to make contact with a friend . |
| 26 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 27 | CUED UP Joe Johnson gives Fred some tips on the finer points of snooker and ( inset ) a beaming Joe and wife Terryll share the moment of triumph when he won the world title in 1986 |
| 28 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 29 | Figure 5.13 is a contrast-stretched Landsat MSS band 7 image of the Leningrad region in the USSR . |
| 30 | The Snotlings will not move until they are able to move within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit , and if charged by enemy troops they are automatically broken as if they had failed a panic or fear test . |