Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possible dissonances ( tones ) are well separated , and by becoming sevenths and ninths the strength of conflict is reduced . |
| 2 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 3 | which is the excuse , I 'd rather somebody went along sort of said right I 'll have it done such and such a time rather than keep buggering about |
| 4 | By three-thirty it was raining so pitilessly that the sky had turned black and all the street lights were on . |
| 5 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 6 | It has , they said , ‘ made valuable and acceptable a building type that is usually considered unglamorous . ’ |
| 7 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 8 | If you come to me and say ‘ I 've had such and such a dream ’ , I 'll say to you ‘ Go away and do it ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Oh yes , we 've got such and such a fella out there that does nothing but that out all day long . |
| 10 | Just an egg if we 've got one and some coffee-the caffeine will at least cheer you up . ’ |
| 11 | Rebekah is growing stronger and cheekier every day . |
| 12 | LOOK SMART AND COMPLETE THE SET IN FASTRAX UNISEX SHORTS IN COLOURS TO MATCH VESTS FROM £6.50 , OR LYCRA KNICKERS . |
| 13 | When that gone down they used to splash cos that used to come underneath the buckets and our cabin hatchway was facing that and many a time that 'd come right down the cabin , the mud . |
| 14 | The ball is kicked high and all the potential of these young lives is concentrated on it . |
| 15 | And er they used to trade up and down this room , Miss I 'll be wearing such and such a dress and it 'll be such and such a colour and er then we used to make the hat for it . |
| 16 | You say that the chief character in your joke or story was wearing such and such a hat or pair of shoes . |
| 17 | ‘ It gets bigger and bigger every year . |
| 18 | Rhiannon now weighs 14 lbs and is getting bigger and stronger every day . |
| 19 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 20 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
| 21 | Students are often asked to criticise such and such an author 's views , or to appraise critically the outcome of a particular idea or thought . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'm getting smaller and smaller every second . ’ |
| 23 | the fraction 's getting smaller and smaller the piece you get is getting less and less . |
| 24 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 25 | He had press conferences to do first and all the ceremony . |
| 26 | And people get exposed and all the rest of it . |
| 27 | Do not these apparently daily murders make plain and stark the need for political developments to take place ? |
| 28 | He 's got his own skateboard ramp in his back garden and he video tapes what he does so that he can watch what he 's doing wrong and all the rest of it . |
| 29 | Parliament discarded the phrase ‘ those whose minds are open to such immoral influence ’ , with its overtones of whether or not a gentleman would let his servants read such and such a book , since the words ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ already carried the sense of ‘ immoral influence ’ , together with a tacit assumption that writings or other works of the imagination could have the effect of tending to make men wicked . |
| 30 | That used to cost one and six a week , for six days , there and back . |