Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merits of these coalitions are that through direct discussions and active support they should raise as many questions as they pose . |
| 2 | He 'd tried loads of different clubs but this time he said , ‘ We 'll go for it today . ’ |
| 3 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 4 | ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’ |
| 5 | That function which language serves in the expression of ‘ content ’ we will describe as transactional , and that function involved in expressing social relations and personal attitudes we will describe as interactional . |
| 6 | They sort of they tie together and you 'll be using some equations and next time we 'll give you som we 'll have a look at graphs again just a quick |
| 7 | Complete with sumptuous sets and classical dancers it 's a sort of Banana melodrama . |
| 8 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 9 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 10 | During the day he would cross the bridge to Chelsea to buy old clothes and other cast-offs , walking the streets with his cry of ‘ Old clothes and old hats I 'll buy them ’ , or begging his keep in more fashionable parts from ‘ cooks thinking he was such a nice old man … |
| 11 | Dickens does this by his attention to even the smallest detail of the characters ' appearance , which includes their faces , clothes and especially any odd phrases or physical blemishes they have as in the case of Pumblechook and his , ‘ I have brought you , Mum , ’ and in Melly 's and Herbert 's cases , that of her strong wrists and his pale young complexion . |
| 12 | As long as they do n't start playing central defenders as full backs it should be ok . |
| 13 | AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met . |
| 14 | In her early years as Prime Minister she largely left the negotiations over Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) and the EEC budget to the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | To the extent that it is possible to separate such ideas as surplus value they seem to me totally uninteresting . |
| 16 | At least she thought him middle-aged , but his voice was n't and when she looked at him again she saw that under his haggard features and emaciated frame he was still young , perhaps in his late twenties . |
| 17 | Two hundred and fifty hours later , after fitting an alarm and the full system over numerous late nights , early mornings and long weekends we drove the finished product out of the garage at 3.00am on Saturday 5 September , yes four hours before we had to register at Wembley . |
| 18 | With such a variety of similar instruments and competitive rates it is difficult and costly in time for all participants to know exactly the best terms and rates . |
| 19 | Once you have access to the BIOS setup screen go through and enter all of the details of the floppy disks and hard disk you are using and of course the date . |
| 20 | Again , pay particular attention to the security of personal doors and any windows you choose to install . |
| 21 | Benjamin stared at my cloak full of the little trinkets and valuable possessions I had collected . |
| 22 | During the next year Sally fell in and out of love a half dozen times and each time it proved to be just as disastrous . |
| 23 | When warning the Church in Corinth to be on their guard against false preachers and false gospels he wrote ‘ But I fear lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . ’ |
| 24 | Though I can see why you must find that disappointing … ’ she let her gaze drift over his white trousers and faded T-shirt , the same white trousers and faded T-shirt he 'd been wearing earlier ‘ … after all the trouble you 've gone to changing for me . ’ |
| 25 | Again she prays and for three days and three nights she is swept through cold northern seas until she is cast ashore on the sands of Culleross on the north side of our Solway Firth . |
| 26 | SUCH is the alarming speed with which pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream these days that one moment you can be an underground guitar hero from Seattle , next you 're on The Clothes Show . |
| 27 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
| 28 | With his fine features and pale face he looked like a carved medieval figure on a tomb , and Constance was overwhelmed by his beauty . |
| 29 | Last week there I was moaning about just two fish in three matches and this week I had more than 200 in two outings . |
| 30 | Although I admire Mrs Dinwiddie 's concern for her family , I remind her that had she been a mother less than 80 years ago , when there were no modern crop chemicals , animal health products , food preservatives , human vaccines and modern medicines it is unlikely that her complete family would have survived childhood . |