Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 2 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 3 | I 've come to walk with Beefy — not just to prove to myself that I can , but to bring this terrible disease out in the open . |
| 4 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 5 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 6 | We 're just a rotten little side-show up in the sky . |
| 7 | ‘ Personally , I 'd be happier watching television back in the hotel . ’ |
| 8 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |
| 9 | It was either that or some whacking great palace out in the New Territories or one of the outlying islands . ’ |
| 10 | Starting with that fat bitch out in the kitchen . |
| 11 | Er old Mrs I du n no , but th , anyway there was only this one old house up in the common and er I went up there one time with horse and take a couple of pigs from there down to Wimborne market . |
| 12 | The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event . |
| 13 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 14 | There are now enough people , especially on the Tory side , with a vested interest in the methodology of politics , many of them at any given time out in the cold , to make the lives of incumbents difficult . |