Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 2 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 3 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 4 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
| 5 | But they could never have imagined the extent to which their fame would spread , so much so that today , at certain times of the year , visitors to the spa almost double Baden 's population . |