Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 2 | A beautiful non-tidal cove where Dublin 's finest flaunted themselves at an indifferent sea while their wives , children and girlfriends sat half a mile away on what was an excuse for a beach amidst the polluted debris of the capital and not a wave to be seen . |
| 3 | Many saw it as an ideal opportunity for the Prince and Princess to put on a united front , quashing speculation over their marriage . |
| 4 | ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’ |
| 5 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 6 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |
| 7 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |