Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 You , you take up the normal I do n't tend to do this , but this is really the best way to do the shot .
2 But I almost owe it to the reborn me not to take that kind of shit from any man again .
3 the ineradicable sown-in-us
4 Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage .
5 He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site .
6 ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player .
7 Six weeks after the acute she came along with headaches , anxiety , depression and low-grade digestive symptoms .
8 The Ersatz they were asked to give , and gave , was of low quality .
9 Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's
10 I remember the first time I used the frail I got a clout o' the skull that I 'd remember .
11 He did the accidental I 'm sure , controversy .
12 However , in the search for wholeness one partner may choose and use the other to express a feared or unrecognized part of the self , and this , by definition , is unconscious : ‘ I love the unrecognized me in you ’ .
13 It 's worth mentioning that I asked a lot of people in Spain , when I was there , at the Spanish you know what they knew about it , and nobody did .
14 Anyway I suggested to Mrs Newton that this sort of thing did n't sound like the Froggy we all knew and loved because , with great respect , that sort of money would usually have gone only in one direction — to the publicans and bookies .
15 Adding his voice to the outcry against outlawing simple unauthorised entry into computers , Budley Salterton ( not his real name ) warned : ‘ It 's not the catch-all they ( the Law Commission ) hope for .
16 Probably just the right you know , run .
17 I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt
18 He regretted that as teachers of the deaf they were inadequately trained , underpaid and overworked and therefore did not stay in the profession .
19 It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality .
20 Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard .
21 A lot of aggressive publicity and marketing surrounds funboard design , and for the uninitiated it is difficult to understand what is going on .
22 To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible .
23 To the uninitiated it must seem absurd .
24 Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish .
25 From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly .
26 A a at precisely the point where one one would expect them to be in the position to be able to encroach on the rich they are actually this is , this is the promotion of the rich peasant economy .
27 Thus , for a particular segment of the rich it was less wealth per se which was of importance , than wealth displayed as a conspicuous distance from the world of practical necessity .
28 For the middle class and the rich it was increasingly tourism , essentially the product of the railway , the steamship and ( in so far as that invention of our period , the picture postcard , is still an essential part of it ) of the new scale and speed of postal communications .
29 He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away .
30 To the rich he said :
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