Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 2 | Midge had known the moment she saw them that something was wrong and she was hurt by Patrick 's announcement that he was going to pack up his things . |
| 3 | And I 'll tell you later one wrong and you 're hit on the head ! |
| 4 | He went on : ‘ Linford was a bit special from about seven years old and we were told by teachers at secondary school he was very talented . |
| 5 | ‘ You are nine years old and you are going to be sent away to a good school , and you must take advantage of all they teach you . |
| 6 | I discovered the Messiah when I was sixteen years old and I was overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and grandeur of Handel 's enduring masterpiece . |
| 7 | She was very old and she was lying on her back , her feet towards me . |
| 8 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 9 | Avoid behaviour indicating sub-text like : ‘ You 're boring me rigid and I 'm looking for someone more interesting to talk to . ’ |
| 10 | I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally . |
| 11 | The reason for this is not clear but it is believed to be related to surface characteristics such as defect chemistry . |
| 12 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 13 | The basic professional stand against censorship is sound but it is weakened by inaction when opportunities arise to be decisive and it is further weakened by elements of the profession which seek to censor , while often interpreting this as positive discrimination . |
| 14 | Rudolf Diesel 's father might have been German but he was born in Paris . |
| 15 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 16 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 17 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
| 18 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 19 | That 's the difference between arts and science , because you 've actually got something there you can look at and study , so you 're talking about facts , whereas in the arts side it 's all airy-fairy and you 're beating about the bush a lot . |
| 20 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 21 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 22 | His hands and fingernails were filthy , his face and legs were covered in muck , his clothes were sodden and he was glorying in the wetness of it all . |
| 23 | He run very well last time , showed plenty of early and he 's going to be on his toes tonight , but anyway it 's Ashfield Charlie in trap two , the selection for the first leg of the yankee . |
| 24 | Most walkers use the good choice of refuges , hotels and gîtes — though booking ahead is not easy and you 're committed to reaching a bed each night . |
| 25 | The experience of being on Iona is nothing less than magical and I am moved to tears . |
| 26 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 27 | His injuries were not serious but he was kept in North Tees Hospital overnight . |
| 28 | He is frail and it is upsetting for her . ’ |
| 29 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |
| 30 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |