Example sentences of "[adj] ['s] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
2 | If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave . |
3 | Power returned to Sabine 's limbs and she dashed frantically across the road , and tugged at the driver 's door . |
4 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |
5 | As a gesture of goodwill , it is MAS 's recommendation that you offer to sign a confidentiality undertaking following the meeting in order for you and ourselves to obtain further financial , product and management information relating to the target . |
6 | Casting scorn on Stringy 's suggestion that they ask the mate 's advice on what to do with their almost embarrassingly rich discovery , the other three youths make feverish plans . |
7 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
8 | Albert had said Mr Evans would be flaming mad when he heard about Mrs Gotobed 's Will and it seemed Albert was right . |
9 | Trevor Magee had passed the small entryway to Long 's Court when he noticed it . |
10 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
11 | Well , I suppose it 's better than nothing , but I 'd be grateful for a month or two 's notice when you do decide to go . |