Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 2 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 3 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |
| 4 | Confronted with the crass sexual exploitation of mainstream pop , alternative British rock shrouds itself in shapeless jumpers and stares heavenwards . |
| 5 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 6 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 7 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 9 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 10 | One daily paper provides plenty of stomach-turning examples : |
| 11 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 12 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 13 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 14 | Next day the German attack repeated itself with meticulous Prussian efficiency . |
| 15 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 17 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 18 | I ca n't really ring up British Coal to say what about wooden , Woodstow my friends . |
| 19 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 20 | The financial stringencies which accompany marriage and child-rearing caused this interest to be set aside , and once it had gone , the cultural tradition asserted itself to remarkable effect . |
| 21 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 22 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |
| 23 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 24 | The Labour Party 's environment spokesman , Dr David Clark , described the government 's decision as ‘ a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment ’ . |
| 25 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 26 | Amid Victorian elegance enjoy everything from tasty bar snacks and meals to superb à la carte dinners . |
| 27 | The offline manager must specify for each media item whether it is to be used for primary or secondary purposes , although there is no absolute requirement to make them of different media types . |
| 28 | Not only do we need to strengthen up the entire body to keep it in good working order but there are certain areas that need extra exercise to give the area more definition ; areas that accumulate unwanted flab . |
| 29 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 30 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |