Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 2 | ‘ How could it 'ave jumped out of that geezer 's pocket into me hat ? ’ |
| 3 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 4 | The sudden death of Philip in the novel is one of the few references in Thomas 's work traceable to the impact of the elder critic 's death upon him and the Part it played in hardening his determination to become a writer . |
| 5 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 6 | ‘ Joe Gargery , I am sent by someone who suggests cancelling this boy 's apprenticeship to you . |
| 7 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 8 | It was politically unsound , and that was my old band 's argument against it ’ — Norman Cook |
| 9 | I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend 's constituency with him . |
| 10 | But there was nothing in the least admiring in this man 's assessment of her . |
| 11 | You 've got another man 's child in you . |
| 12 | The old man 's faith in her did wonders for her morale . |
| 13 | He glanced aside at his grandfather , to see the old man 's eye on him . |
| 14 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 15 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 16 | Q : But this Darcy 's Utopia of yours , this paradise , is surely merely a dream . |
| 17 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 18 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |
| 19 | ‘ Jorja , stop poisoning that boy 's mind against me . ’ |
| 20 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 21 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 22 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 23 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 24 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 25 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 26 | Central government 's responsibility for it was not at all clear . |
| 27 | Joseph had planned to sell Sabine Jourdain 's work for her and cut out Maurin . |
| 28 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 29 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
| 30 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |