Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 2 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 3 | The morning was damp and I licked some dew from the lawn . |
| 4 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 5 | There was a charming and I thought authentic baroque quality to the musicians ' solos . |
| 6 | During this period her message became increasingly apocalyptic and she disrupted public meetings and religious gatherings , acquiring a following of several women and arousing the antagonism of the Quaker leaders , who tried unsuccessfully to restrain her . |
| 7 | High dose corticosteroids were unhelpful and he underwent ileal resection with a 12 month remission . |
| 8 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 9 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 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 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 12 | Uvarov 's position as education minister became untenable and he resigned six months later . |
| 13 | That 's right and they paid some child |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dennis Priestley was their professional and he scored 265 points . |
| 17 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 18 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 19 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 20 | Carter 's intentions were , in many ways , laudable and he had some successes , notably in bringing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1978 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Young Black and I became good friends . |
| 23 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 24 | Fagg fitted in : his eyesight was very poor and he had flat feet . |
| 25 | Time was short and they needed each other 's strength . |
| 26 | I thought the flysheet looked too short and I worried that rain would get into the inner . |
| 27 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 30 | The weather was hot and I felt little interest in ruins ; but the Parthenon proved to have a matchless beauty for which I was quite unprepared . |