Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And to tell my friends to be more careful where they discussed other people 's affairs ! |
| 2 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 3 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
| 4 | ( Parent : ‘ Can you think of anything that might go wrong if we adopt that course of action ? ’ ) |
| 5 | But you 'd be wrong if you met six men who live and work on Teesside . |
| 6 | New furniture normally is , but be careful if you buy older items from antique or second-hand shops . |
| 7 | Thankful that , though her ankle was still painful if she put any weight on it , her foot was n't swollen , Luce put on a pair of yellow flat-heeled sandals and , unable to contain her impatience a moment longer , picked up the crutch and headed down the corridor . |
| 8 | On no account feel despondent if you find these exercises difficult — they are ! |
| 9 | But we would be even more foolish if we imagined that modernity is neutral territory : it is enemy territory — as the world , for Christians , has always been . |
| 10 | The buzz , the uninhibited , excited talking , yes , uninhibited talking , in a district where you were made to feel peculiar if you allowed any expression to cross your face in the street , died as the lights slowly faded . |
| 11 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 12 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 13 | The noticeable familial disruption occurring in other cases is particularly interesting because it reflects social role expectations of women , where the primary role traditionally is that of homemaker , family manager , and housewife ( Oakley , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 15 | A simple unipolar drive circuit — so-called because it produces unidirectional currents suitable for use with a variable -reluctance type motor is discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 16 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 17 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 18 | All of these except reaction ( c ) are spontaneous since they have negative G values . |
| 19 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |
| 20 | Sebastian de Ferranti , Basil 's brother and now a director of Ferranti 's competitor GEC , is a trustee of the interests but it is not clear whether he shares these views . |
| 21 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 22 | The reason becomes clear when we consider these devices ' search spaces for learning . |
| 23 | Reasons for the thematic ill-formedness of the above extract will become clear as we explore various aspects of thematic organization . |
| 24 | His grandfather , Bo Min Yaung , had fought as a guerrilla against the British when they occupied Upper Burma . |
| 25 | The tentative price was £8,000 and Oceanic Airways of Australia were interested as they operated 10 Monospar four-seaters . |
| 26 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 27 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 28 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 29 | Old when they say old antiquarian books |
| 30 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |