Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad I 'm out and I 'm glad that I never see some of them bloody people again |
| 2 | ‘ They 'll give me fifty pence for that at the souvenir shop , ’ Adam said . |
| 3 | She sells them to me fifty pence a packet . |
| 4 | Anyway , she owed me fifty quid . |
| 5 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 6 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 8 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 9 | When the tide rises , cold waters flood in , bringing with them hard-fighting sea-trout which dash through the brackish , salt waters , sending waves swirling and anglers ' hearts racing . |
| 10 | She says all them old people round there know him . |
| 11 | Without them some data gathered in orbit will have nowhere to go . |
| 12 | However good our schools , there will emerge from them some people , quite capable of looking after themselves and of having a simple job , whose reading age will never be more than 8 or 9 . |
| 13 | She still owe me forty pence . |
| 14 | But even as preparations were being made to fly them home , talks were going on with independent schools all over England in the hope of finding them free places.Andrew Auster is one of the organizers of the scheme … and he 'll be taking some of the orphans at the Downs School in Colwall : |
| 15 | Uncle Fred was an austere and impressive figure , whom some people found forbidding . |
| 16 | Kids may keep their books shipshape if you give them this pair of Noah 's Ark bookends . |
| 17 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 18 | When this is suggested , the invitation should always be along the lines of : ‘ I 'd love you to come out for a run in the car with me some time . |
| 19 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 20 | He 's getting me some fruit cup stuff . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd like to give them fresh fruit , whereas the good food has to be limited . |
| 22 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 23 | In the meantime , if you want to ask questions , come to me , not to my junior staff . |
| 24 | I make my potted salmon in a shallow round white pot decorated on the outside with coloured fish . |
| 25 | Occasionally , when pulling away in first gear , the engine in my 1971 Series III will die unless the clutch is depressed quickly . |
| 26 | Twice my bloody Piedmontese tried to get rid of the Protestants at their gates . |
| 27 | MacDonald 's reply — ‘ I explained my hopeless parlty. position if there were any resignations ’ — is a clear indication that he found the idea of a National Government distasteful ; indeed , that his position was likely to be ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 28 | The frequency with which Creole utterances are met with laughter in my conversational data is remarkable . |
| 29 | But as it was Dod , I took my fifty quid and free ploughman 's lunches ( not that Canning Town 's seen a ploughman since Shakespeare packed 'em in over at the Globe in Southwark ) and we humped boxes and sat in traffic jams and set the world to rights . |
| 30 | My Dear People . |