Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I paddle quickly , aware too that the Ocean 's cold has gnawed its way uncomfortably through the thin GRP of the kayak and into my poorly protected flesh Tony waits for me , to point out a small brown luck that is lurking among some rocks to our right . |
| 4 | They were a mixed bunch , O.K. for the most part — one had to be thrown out for drawing genitals on Arthur the doll , thus adding to my scant sexual knowledge , and one , a regular called John , was particularly charming and handsome . |
| 5 | She said I was n't my usual buoyant self . |
| 6 | ‘ You noticed I was n't my usual chatty self ? |
| 7 | I do n't have to be in my usual internal listening-post to know what she 's thinking . |
| 8 | I 'd made my usual lousy start , Niki had made a reasonable one and Clay [ Regazzoni ] had made a super start . |
| 9 | I observed him quite coldly but with my usual hapless concern . |
| 10 | And intermingled with my usual imagined scenes of Mala and me together were other images — of Grand Emissaries and God-Kings , what they might want of me , what they might offer in return . |
| 11 | I 'll just be my usual laid-back self this week . ’ |
| 12 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 13 | I lie , with my usual breathtaking skill , and assume a fake mantle . |
| 14 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 15 | A massive dose of sun cream and a sun visor and I 'm back to my usual prattling self . |
| 16 | These breasty pin-ups , these laboured mutations of suggestive posture , these roguish captions , fail to arouse even a flicker of my usual amused interest . |
| 17 | Can I ask my usual old chestnut again , Chairman ? |
| 18 | my usual yearly group |
| 19 | ‘ In other words , you do n't want me to behave in my usual bull-headed manner . ’ |
| 20 | Frankly , my usual braving-the-beach technique is to exude mystery beneath an extravagant sunhat , in the hope that my headgear will divert attention away from my cellulite . |
| 21 | I lift my key towards the lock on my own front door , with all my usual sudden rush of fears and anxieties . |
| 22 | Except , of course , for my usual modest fee . ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I actually , in my usual optimistic spirit , do not believe it will be lost , in the end , because we 're facing such a strange collection of critics and would-be voters who contradict each other . ’ |
| 24 | Your work at the zoo is so different from my usual day-to-day surgeries . ’ |
| 25 | I looked down at my sweet-smelling rosy babies , newly bathed and attired for the night in matching Christmas pyjamas and fluffy slippers . |
| 26 | My professional clairvoyant friend , who was once heading for the Christian mission field , said , |
| 27 | ‘ I love you ’ , and before she can answer I hear my metallic other self respond , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 28 | I adore eating out and always choose something different from my normal home-made menus . |
| 29 | ‘ I was merely following my normal humanitarian instincts — ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My purchase of Crosby Hall is outside my normal commercial activities . |