Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very happy , for we were so grateful that we still had each other . |
| 2 | Cliff Bastin 's verdict on the season 's triumph was unequivocal : ‘ This Arsenal team of 1930–31 was the finest eleven I ever played in . |
| 3 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 4 | They gave me another flat somebody else had turned down . |
| 5 | ‘ It was this final one all draw that knocked us out . |
| 6 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 7 | Gandhi used the term sarvodaya as the title of a Gujarati translation of Ruskin 's Unto This Last which greatly influenced him . |
| 8 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 9 | It 's , it 's a comedy and it do n't look half bad I just watched , I just watched about |
| 10 | What I was erm doing was trying to identify the three er characteristics of the er Maoist Communist Party as it emerged towards the end of the nineteen thirties which really disqualifies it , I think , from the label Marxist , means that it 's a completely different type of organization to what the Chinese Communist Party had been in the nineteen twenties . |
| 11 | He , in the , in the early nineteen-fifties he once came to , he came to Oxford , and there was a meeting at which erm all my colleagues threw at him very sophisticated objections to his philosophical position . |
| 12 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 13 | Between the ages of 33 and 33–½ my mind changed , I think due to mere terror , or the outrageous ageing process , or gross deliberate indulgence , or love and emotion , or noticing that all around me friends and enemies were having children and were tons happier than I ever thought possible , or all of a sweet serious sudden it just seemed the only thing to do . |
| 14 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
| 15 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
| 16 | As an afterthought I have remembered that when I worked in London in the very early twenties I once went , in my lunch hour , to the Temperance Hospital and asked if I could visit a patient , though I knew it was out of visiting hours . |
| 17 | During the early sixties they happily cruised the Windward Islands , revelling in some 30 tranquil anchorages . |
| 18 | Contrast that with the two miners and mere four who also dirty their hands : Jim D'Avila ( Swindon ) , a worker at the local Rover car plant ; Nick Ainger ( Pembroke ) , a rigger ; Llewellyn Smith ( Michael Foot 's successor in Blaenau Gwent ) , a former factory worker ; and Bob Ainsworth ( Coventry NE ) , a sheet metal worker . |
| 19 | The key event was the dispute surrounding the Eddie Shah group of free newspapers and it was resolved with the help of two pieces of trade union legislation introduced in the early 1980s which henceforth placed the trade union movement on the defensive . |
| 20 | As a founder member , songwriter and saxophone player , Horace played in the 1950s-revivalist band Darts from 1975 to 1985. in the early 1980s he also ran an independent record company . |
| 21 | Thoughts of that previous one only crept their way back with the forbidden thought of a child . |
| 22 | He did not have a good journey from Greshornish ; the ground proved so soft that he frequently had to dismount and walk . |
| 23 | Francis and Richard tend to play slightly ahead of the beat , and although it 's more than likely psychological I always felt that playing fingerstyle meant a sort of delay between playing something and hearing it , which seemed to mess up the impact of the songs . |
| 24 | And in between these two we also have something called midcentrics who do bits of both , but these are the two extremes . |
| 25 | Mm was that all they actually did during those war years there just repairing the aircraft |
| 26 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 27 | Yeah , but , so with that all he only needs , he only needs to get |
| 28 | ‘ Is that all you ever think of ? — No , of course it is n't . |
| 29 | He made sure that he never had much on him . |
| 30 | That question must be determined by reference to general principles , or which the first ( and in most cases also the last ) is that judicial proceedings are supposed to take place openly , and publication of those proceedings is ‘ merely enlarging the area of the court , and communicating to all that which all has the right to know ’ ( per Lord Halsbury , L.C. in MacDougall v. Knight [ 1989 ] A.C. 194 at p.200 . |