Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan . |
| 2 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 3 | I am 17 years old and I know many people who enjoy ‘ real ’ traditional music — no matter what speed it is played at , or how loud it is . |
| 4 | Woodlice breed well in captivity if their surroundings are kept damp and they have enough food . |
| 5 | The morning was damp and I licked some dew from the lawn . |
| 6 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 7 | Frankly she goes , she goes yeah he 's alright she said but he 's too two faced and I said that does n't sound like him , I said I thought he was quite nice and she goes yeah well he is she says he says one thing to you and then you find out that he 's said something completely different and you hear another side of it . |
| 8 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 9 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 10 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 11 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
| 12 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 13 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 14 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 15 | If you find your throat is dry and you need some water just take a few sips to moisten your mouth . |
| 16 | These are what we want to do , you know , work hard and they do this sort of thing . |
| 17 | They 're walking through the desert and like , you know , they 're gon na die , it 's obvious and they see this house . |
| 18 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
| 19 | Carter 's intentions were , in many ways , laudable and he had some successes , notably in bringing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1978 . |
| 20 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 21 | But if you want to play things that sound good and you have those limitations , then often you have to resort to things that other people would n't do . |
| 22 | The benefits will be very substantial and I believe this initiative could be as significant to us in the future as was SRS when it was introduced all those years ago . |
| 23 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |
| 24 | Time was short and they needed each other 's strength . |
| 25 | From time to time a shell or two falls short and we have several casualties . ’ |
| 26 | I thought the flysheet looked too short and I worried that rain would get into the inner . |
| 27 | The discussions are always , as indeed are practically all our discussions , highly informal and we encourage each other to produce ideas , no matter how fanciful . |
| 28 | There are times , of course , when all goes well and we actually enjoy it , but at other times the cost seems too heavy and we have few people we can share the job with or who can understand . |
| 29 | The authors , whose style is often banal and who favour such phrases as ‘ the march of history ’ , end with a detailed discussion of how these evils might be avoided . |
| 30 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |