Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few days last week it looked as though United States voters would behave as British voters did earlier this year and swing back to the devil they knew . |
| 2 | The basic pattern was always the same , but Bridget liked to make minute adjustments each time she reviewed it . |
| 3 | A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic . |
| 4 | She 'd be in plaster for six weeks each time she broke them , ’ says Rosemerry . |
| 5 | I hope you 've locked the car up , three times last week I found it open , it really is terribly dangerous … |
| 6 | The boots served me well in wet weather doing an admirable job in keeping my feet dry , but on some of the hotter days this year I did find that my feet got unpleasantly hot and sweaty . |
| 7 | Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course |
| 8 | I must say Oliver ordered some pretty filthy wines those times I went out with him . |
| 9 | At 1836 hrs that evening he sent off his reply in a signal to Gen McCreery , FX 75383 [ KP 103 ] . |
| 10 | During municipal elections last December he pushed for direct elections , in place of the old system of lists controlled by party bosses . |
| 11 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 12 | ‘ Your free and easy ways were all very well when you were a little girl — though Daddy did spank you , if you remember , for letting the sweep try on his medals , and you got some terrible bruises that time you rescued the kitten from those rough boys . |
| 13 | And then she used to take all those together and she used to have to give the conductor so many tickets each time she went . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready . |
| 15 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 16 | McCreery gave Keightley the authorization he had asked for , and at 1450 hrs that afternoon he sent a further signal to Gen Clark at 15th Army Group , AC/190 [ KP 102 ] , reporting " Approx 300,000 Germans and 200,000 Croats moving towards area Villach-Klagenfurt . |
| 17 | The rector of Weston-Longville in Norfolk was well placed to appreciate the contrast between the six-figure income of Prinny at Carlton House , the building of which accounted for much of his debt , and the nine pounds annual wage he paid his servant Ben Leggatt . |
| 18 | Examples of centurial stones or distance slabs with which different legionary detachments marked sections they had constructed are to be seen in the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow . |
| 19 | ‘ Although you did n't mention any names last week I knew it had to be me , ’ said Heather . |
| 20 | They jangled when she moved and brushed her creamy shoulders each time she turned her head . |
| 21 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 22 | The strange relationship she had with him was like the painting , she thought — nothing quite what it appeared , unveiling new facets each time she considered it . |
| 23 | When the Minister met the nine regional chairmen last week they regarded his statement that he sought to achieve no more funding for sport in this country — Wales received 8.5 per cent. , Scotland 15 per cent . |