Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [unc] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 2 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 3 | Years later , in Bergamo , she still teaches the old shepherd 's phrases to her talking blue-rock thrush . |
| 4 | It was politically unsound , and that was my old band 's argument against it ’ — Norman Cook |
| 5 | I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend 's constituency with him . |
| 6 | You can forget old wives ' tales about it clearing up ‘ when you get married ’ or ‘ growing out of it ’ . |
| 7 | The old man 's faith in her did wonders for her morale . |
| 8 | He glanced aside at his grandfather , to see the old man 's eye on him . |
| 9 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 10 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 11 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |
| 12 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 13 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 15 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 16 | Central government 's responsibility for it was not at all clear . |
| 17 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 18 | Joseph had planned to sell Sabine Jourdain 's work for her and cut out Maurin . |
| 19 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 20 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
| 21 | The official government tartan is the Black Watch , into which we are weaving a coloured line relating to each of the three Edinburgh galleries , taking the claret of the National Gallery 's walls for ours ’ . |
| 22 | Similarly , if you find some of the newer exercises get too hard for you , remain on the previous day 's exercises until you become.more supple and strong . |
| 23 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 24 | She was stifling , she was being crushed , overwhelmed , and the hard man 's body against her was not Neil 's but that of the man who had … who … had … and panic ensued , all-enveloping panic , uncontrollable . |
| 25 | What was your previous employer 's opinion of you ? |
| 26 | I certainly do not intend to fight the Scottish National party 's battles for it . |
| 27 | The present baronet 's likeness to him was almost uncanny . |
| 28 | ‘ He swirled his black necromancer 's cloak about her , and he carried her from the Sun Chamber and out through the great doors , and out into the night and none could stop him . |
| 29 | Married couples will have the option of splitting the married couple 's allowance between them as they choose . |
| 30 | Peers expressed their sorrow at the news of the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales after the Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern relayed the Prime Minister 's announcement to them . |