Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 2 | It 's very important to recognize that York although a historic city as I mentioned er in the previous discussion , erm is a er is an industrial city with a significant number of employment problems , in particular in the rail engineering industry where we see a rapid er contraction of er what was Brown which is now A B B , clearly continuing problems in the rail industry with the er problems most certainly caused by privatization and also major job reductions in er firms such as Rowntrees and Terrys in the confectionery industry . |
| 3 | To start from Dalwhinnie means a huge walk along the northern shore of Loch Ericht , and possibly an overnight stop at Culra bothy at the base of Carn Dearg , not a pleasant thought when you remember that bothies are always full of smelly men , in even smellier sleeping-bags . |
| 4 | The road heads north-west following the coast of Loch Torridon and passing occasional habitations and the village of Kenmore ; this is situated on a pleasant bay where there is another fish hatchery . |
| 5 | young fawn — a pleasant moment till I saw |
| 6 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 7 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 8 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 9 | It was genuine amusement , and rather a pleasant sound if you were in the mood for humour . |
| 10 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 11 | ‘ I would be a rich man if I could . |
| 12 | So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening . |
| 13 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 14 | In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy . |
| 15 | He raised a mocking brow when she made no move to step aside . |
| 16 | He held up a pacifying hand as he saw the other prepare for battle . |
| 17 | It was no use trying a friendly smile because you immediately developed a long line of followers and felt like a comet with a tail . |
| 18 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |
| 19 | Q&A gives you a friendly feeling as you launch the program . |
| 20 | He gave the pair a friendly glance as they walked towards the riverside . |
| 21 | Springsteen circled my legs and howled a bad-tempered welcome as I opened the purple — yes , purple — envelope . |
| 22 | Although some people are quite happy to just because it 's training i it they 're quite happy if it 's a hypothetical situation cos they think well I can actually learn from this , I can , I know what the concept structure is , I can learn from it . |
| 23 | In some ways it 's a simpler game than we make it out to be . ’ |
| 24 | ROS : It was a trying episode while it lasted , but they 've done with us now . |
| 25 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 26 | FORGET the sangria and San Miguels , England got a slimline tonic when they arrived in Spain yesterday … in the shape of Paul Gascoigne . |
| 27 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 28 | Some appointments could be on a representative basis where there are sectional interests , but in other cases the wider public interest would need to be safeguarded . |
| 29 | I 'm quite a lazy person so I ignored them . |
| 30 | If you 're running a slow dot matrix printer on a 10MHz 286 , you can reasonably expect to have a cup of coffee and a sticky bun before your banner is printed . |