Example sentences of "[adj] words [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 If they have adequately emotional words they can be used .
2 In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives .
3 Cos there 's some words you can only have in plural and not in single .
4 For Byrd 's finest expression of religious emotion to English words we must turn to his Psalmes , Sonets and songs of Sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) , his Songs of sundrie natures ( 1589 ) , and his Psalmes , Songs and Sonnets ( 1611 ) , which include equivalents of the geistlicher Gesang and madrigale spirituale though often conceived with instrumental parts ; for his greatest church music to his two hundred or so motets .
5 When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes .
6 In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time .
7 The setting : Unhelpful words you may have used : Unhelpful body language :
8 ‘ Her eyesight 's not too good now , ’ she continued , as though that might somehow render her mother 's behaviour less odd , as though by mere words she could be converted into a harmless , ordinary , ageing old lady , just like other people 's mothers .
9 I think the introduction of this guitar is quite significant ; it 's fresh , different and just plain exciting , and those are three words you wo n't often see in the review of a new guitar .
10 Sportier yeah well as you say I mean a lot of these words you would n't want chancing yourself , would you ?
11 To find these words you must join together consecutive letters in following words .
12 By these words she would remember form and colour .
13 Here are the key words you may come across and what they mean …
14 If you need to write an essay about a topic , once you have written your list of key words you can use them to create a thought-flow chart .
15 But at your age you know so many words you could n't really be expected to spell all of them and you 're you 're thinking Oh whatever I do I every word I write down is wrong .
16 Let's see how many words you can think of that have an ail sound in them .
17 ‘ Even if you did open it , ’ said the Bookman , ‘ I 'm sure the pages are weighed down with so many words it would be impossible to turn them over . ’
18 You 've got to think how many words it would take to start an argument .
19 He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to .
20 Those words I would like to put on the record where on an earlier sheet that somehow or other have disappeared from the current Order Paper .
21 There are lots of plain old-fashioned words I can think of right now , going back to the Bible , some of them . ’
22 And Goldberg , drawing his pad towards him : The very words he used to excuse his behaviour at the wedding .
23 More words I ca n't take in .
24 Those were the first words I can remember .
25 We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call .
26 It does NOT identify the particular words you must teach : more importantly than that , it points to the patterns that need learning .
27 or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that
28 Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me .
29 For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit .
30 ‘ As long as you are in this shoddy squadron , there are certain words you will not use .
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