Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , we have acquired more than 14,000 works , 10,000 of them dated 1960 or later . |
| 2 | We present the case histories of two young adults in whom acute behavioural disturbance , initially diagnosed and treated as substance abuse , was the presenting manifestation of acute bacterial meningitis . |
| 3 | Patients whose serum creatinine concentration did not subsequently fall below 500 µmol/l were defined as having chronic renal failure ; those in whom acute renal failure was part of any underlying terminal disease ( usually malignant ) were also excluded . |
| 4 | ‘ Still bringing wages home to me dear old mum , ’ said Joe , who spent the occasional weekend with his parents in their Chatham home and was always there at Christmas . |
| 5 | Isobel found nothing odd any more in public discussion of her breasts and the milk and the way the baby acted during feeding . |
| 6 | Speakers 9 and 10 are more interesting in that neither of them used Creole syntactic features or any of the segmental phonological features that are characteristic of Creole , or are identifiably part of the " Patois " stereotype . |
| 7 | Some of them used broken chairs to hit people . |
| 8 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 9 | I have dusted down others and given them sacrilegious new twists , incorporating nuts into rolypoly , for example , and using kumquats instead of lemons for old-fashioned Sussex Pond Pudding . |
| 10 | Each of them combined eastern ritual with western realism . |
| 11 | Chapel and Sunday-school were to me cruel ceremonious punishments for the freedom of Monday to Saturday … . |
| 12 | W first of all though I think I 've got them right this time I hope , the World Health Organization , charities , the United Nations , the European Commission erm foreign business organizations and l the bodies that lay down regulations er for activities . |
| 13 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 14 | They can also demand that the rich countries build them adequate waste-treatment plants . |
| 15 | ‘ One of them old music-hall ballads of yours , Charlie . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , Tom would n't let us go , kept fillin' up them old cracked china mugs of his . |
| 17 | Anyone who has recently taken up some form of exercise will tell that it has brought them enhanced mental energy and concentration , the ability to sleep more deeply and a feeling of well-being . |
| 18 | Yeah , great , cos it 's exactly , there 's nothing wrong electrical . |
| 19 | I ask Mr Jackson if I can take all my plants , and he looks at them doubtful like . |
| 20 | In political terms ( see chapter 6 above ) it separated people like ‘ the intelligent artisan ’ , to whom British middle-class radicals were anxious to give the vote , from the dangerous and ragged masses whom they were still determined to exclude . |
| 21 | The animals suffocate after being trapped in the nets , and the fishermen are reluctant to cut them free due to the high cost ( US$20 ) of replacing the nets . |
| 22 | Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , as I 'm always sayin' to me old Dutch , what the eyes do n't see the 'eart do n't grieve about , and a bloke 's got to make a livin' some'ow . |
| 24 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 25 | me , I , I got , I took me old three put out the other day and so they said got your |
| 26 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 27 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
| 28 | It 's fresh , pleasant to use , does n't irritate skin and keeps me fresh all day . |
| 29 | HEADACHE PILL LEFT ME PARALYSED BLIND & DUMB |
| 30 | Be careful that the words sound the way they do normally , because it 's very easy when you pronounce individual words to make them sound odd . |