Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On subsequent visits to Spain Minton did reveal enough knowledge of Spanish to engage locals in conversations in bars , but in 1949 the only Spanish Bernard heard him say was ‘ No , melón ! ’ to a waiter . |
| 2 | What associated skills do we |
| 3 | There are extra shopping centres and the Lady Godiva statue now has a marquee-like canopy swamping it . |
| 4 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 5 | They were rusticated like naughty undergraduates to remote provinces — Molotov as ambassador to Ulan Bator , Malenkov to run a power station , Kaganovich to run a cement works , while Marshals Zhukov and Bulganin in due course followed them into retirement . |
| 6 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 7 | Mr in due course did you go to the flat ? |
| 8 | It will take more than a bloody hurricane to stop me . ’ |
| 9 | As one of the party 's rural Deputies put it : ‘ If Ray proves he can do the toughest job in the EC , and he has , would n't it be foolish not to give him the opportunity to run this little country of ours ? ’ |
| 10 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 11 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 12 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 13 | There was this big , tall building protecting me . |
| 14 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 15 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 16 | The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided . |
| 17 | As that money disappears it will inevitably put more of a burden on the union . |
| 18 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't buy that jumper did I , Mikila , cos it 's not very |
| 20 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 21 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 22 | To finish , we should emphasise that the kind of short-term contract working we have observed in manufacturing is a specific phenomenon . |
| 23 | A false belief that p has no fact that p to cause it . |
| 24 | Things get much more complicated on later levels , though , where you have to keep moving around to nudge bubbles in the right direction to avoid them colliding and dropping all the grubs . |
| 25 | Those are all steps in the right direction to make us more competitive ; and if we are more competitive , we can obviously sell more of our goods . |
| 26 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 27 | This Mrs Melburn , the parson 's wife … she seems a motherly figure , in a way , but that bit ’ — she pointed to the page of a letter that was on the table — ‘ that bit tells you why they came this way . ’ |
| 28 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 29 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 30 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |