Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers .
2 Yeah , I mean the boy gets , the boy gets as the boy gets older obviously the council will look into it because you ca n't have a wife sleeping in the same room
3 The second kind of case includes those where the agent 's personal normative position is affected by his consent , if it is valid , i.e. if it has its purported normative consequences .
4 If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west .
5 The hon. Gentleman asked first why the assessment credit , the skill check credit , is not to be made available to unemployed people .
6 You 've got a huge red stain all down the back of your shorts .
7 He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve .
8 Projected changes in the type and nature of work available in the economy render urgent both the investigation of occupational choices made by young people , and the attempt to influence these choices in a direction related to the realities of the changing occupational structure .
9 Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere .
10 Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform .
11 But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended .
12 Yet Hilton 's text is remarkable in its power to bring alive conceptually the nature and ultimate implications of the life of faith in its own terms .
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