Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a mixture of strange colours and the knitted ties felt scratchy where Gloria knotted them under Dot 's chin . |
| 2 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |
| 3 | and get that there and then it 'll be a lot easier cos mum said she struggled today to get in that door of the , I said well what do you go in there for ? |
| 4 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker . |
| 6 | I was OK till Marie told me she was going away , and now I feel all sad . |
| 7 | I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time . |
| 8 | Yet it was clear after Irene left him that she , too , was badly in need of a container , and finally found one in Young Jolyon . |
| 9 | Had they checked with a knowledgeable nuclear physicist — and there were several in the nearby physics department who could have helped — or held a technical seminar before the press conference , they would have learned this before events overtook them . |
| 10 | Again , Pound 's admirers will protest ; and they will be right , insofar as Yeats 's account of the Cantos is n't so definitive as Olson takes it to be . |
| 11 | Hampshire players were staggered when Smith told them that Waqar had said : ‘ I 'm going to ******* kill you , you **** . ’ |
| 12 | You become embarrassed when people compliment you : ‘ Oh it was nothing really ’ . |
| 13 | For he is embarrassed when people overhear him . |
| 14 | Jenny 's daddy agreed with this when Jenny urged him to let her become a Brownie . |
| 15 | The car in question was a little Renault , and Jenna was interested as Marguerite led her to the garage later and opened it up . |
| 16 | Then , suddenly , she was free as Leo thrust her away with enough force to slam her back against the window and set it rattling behind her . |
| 17 | Gooch spoke to Fletcher , who has known the couple throughout their marriage , in his hotel room yesterday morning , and the manager said later in a brief written statement : ‘ I was very saddened when Graham told me . |
| 18 | I was not very old when Dad told me that if you stood under it for very long , it would attract the coins out of your pocket . |
| 19 | The lighthouse was fourteen years old when JTR sketched it and by 1876 fish oil had been replaced by paraffin fuel . |
| 20 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 21 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 22 | Cambridge was empty when Coleridge reached it in October . |
| 23 | Anne 's mother seemed asleep so Anne left her and went quickly to meet her friend . |
| 24 | I know five hundred and sixty was extra cos Stuart gave me two hundred short of a thousand . |
| 25 | It would be so typical if Jenny missed her while she was in the booth . |
| 26 | After the battle a prisoner warned them : " For the present you have been victorious because God willed it ; but wait a month or two and you will see Menelik 's soldiers . |
| 27 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 28 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 29 | Ghorbanifar and Secord both remembered North at his wits ' end , pacing back and forth , describing how the contras were dying ; Secord was pestered continually , and admitted that he never sent the rebels ‘ as much as Ollie thought we should ’ . |
| 30 | As source of fertility , Doris dislikes the very essence of life just as much as Sweeney finds it tedious to ‘ drink this booze ’ and ‘ have a tune ’ , |