Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pers pn] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The places we saw & visited were mind-boggling but it was really a family visit to see & , their daughters , sons-in-law & grand-children … all boys ) . |
| 2 | It might not be cos you might have got the formula wrong and you 've got every one of them wrong but it 's usually a good sign . |
| 3 | He has great timing and is naturally very funny but he was always a gentleman and very professional as well . ’ |
| 4 | It 's rather oily and it 's quite a a dense liquid . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's extremely unsafe and it 's only a matter of time before someone is badly hurt . ’ |
| 6 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 7 | The rigidity of the Seayak is noticeable but it is still a plastic boat and therefore slow and fairly cumbersome . |
| 8 | general studies and that 's , you know , er she 's n not randy in that but she 's knows all the all the interesting bit , I du n no we have her for erm , yeah for that and she 's quite a laugh and she does n't take any shit from the boys at all . |
| 9 | I give you that and it 's probably a big mistake . |
| 10 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 11 | I 'm 21 but I 'm still a kid : I go to pubs and do this and that and I think , ‘ Well , if I 'm a kid , other kids must do that ’ . |
| 12 | They go just as fast but it 's now a bending race instead of a straight one |
| 13 | I include netting as a sport since in my view , it is undoubtedly that but it is also a very professional method of getting to grips with the stock . |
| 14 | Both are effective and it 's really a matter of personal preference which you choose . |
| 15 | There is , in fact , an organisation in France that runs world championships for the speedsail , where tactics are unimportant and it is just a matter of courage as speeds of up to 50mph . |
| 16 | I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really . |
| 17 | It started to make er a bit of a horrible noise around the ten second mark and from there it was aborted immediately , erm the sledgehammer was handy and it was just a matter of seconds after that . |
| 18 | Now I 'm seventy-seven and I 'm hardly a day older . ’ |
| 19 | I was swotty but he was just a brain . |
| 20 | is automatically void and it is then a pure question of severance as to whether or not |
| 21 | According to a married 35-year-old credit manager : ‘ At our school we were all approaching our 16th birthdays and it was like anyone who reaches 16 and he 's still a virgin — what a nancy . |
| 22 | My approach and preparation are slower and I am also a different person mentally . |
| 23 | THE sigh always comes first and it 's always a loud one . |
| 24 | Admittedly he is rather obscure and it 's nearly a nundred years since he died . |
| 25 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 26 | Ei either the rate of addition or the rate of removal cos if we 're assuming a steady state the two will be the same and it 's just a question of for some substances it might be easier to measure th the rate of addition , for others it might be easier to measure the rate of removal . |
| 27 | It 's not as much as as the other two but it 's still a significant amount . |
| 28 | And I thought he 's quiet and it was about a week after we had no twice . |