Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However time will tell how easy and/or pleasant they are to use . |
| 2 | There 'll be sections of society who wo n't accept you , no matter how charming or rich you are . |
| 3 | But whether high or low they did not change throughout the reign . |
| 4 | No matter how much some people or situations upset you , no matter how small or helpless you feel , just be yourself and do your best . |
| 5 | If a horse is stiff or sore he can only show his discomfort by resisting . |
| 6 | She and her friends seldom discussed the concept of happiness : when they were not either bored or depressed they were having a good time and enjoying themselves . |
| 7 | While ‘ low ’ or depressed they may feel overwhelmed by despair , guilt and feelings of unworthiness . |
| 8 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 9 | By the time they 're ten or eleven they 're on a six handicap . |
| 10 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 11 | But one summer when I was around ten or eleven I developed a nasty sore throat which the doctor thought was tonsillitis . |
| 12 | We 've still got about ten or eleven I think , have n't we ? |
| 13 | Adam did not know whether to be glad or sorry he had not obtained an English newspaper while away . |
| 14 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 15 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 16 | ‘ But I admit that I 've said a lot of things in the deliberate hope of hurting or humiliating you , and that was one of them . ’ |
| 17 | When we were seven or eight we could clear the place up as good as my Mum … but I 've seen some girls — like my aunt 's little girl and she 's fifteen , she 's just hopeless . |
| 18 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 20 | That 's three that 's da de da de da okay on the follow oh dear or dear me get writer 's cramp at this rate . |
| 21 | If you 're Libyan or Lebanese you must be a terrorist . ’ |
| 22 | At fourteen or forty they are constant , dependable , consistently dispensing happiness wherever they go . |
| 23 | In 1902 or 1903 he married in Toledo Grace Cornelia , an artist , the daughter of William Eaton Canedy of Chicago , an inventor and manufacturer of heavy mining machinery . |
| 24 | To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths , no matter how underhand or devious they might be . |
| 25 | Yet the weak or anomalous We forms may point to a further truth , that Shakespeare conceives of the relationship between two friends as both united and separated . |
| 26 | She cried : ‘ My heart Burns to think that the mayor could stoop so low as to try Robin or Fleece-ing us like this . ’ |
| 27 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 28 | it 's up to him whether it 's , whether they say it 's right or wrong I think , I think what the council said is if they , if they want it , the thing shifting , they are strong enough to get it shifted if they , if they , if they really feel that the things rot , you see up in the Dales they , one chap built a house and er , and they said they had to pull it down because it would n't fit in with , of |
| 29 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 30 | When I was 11 or 12 I had aspirations to be a goalkeeper too . |