Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 're a dear and kind gentlemen , and I wish you were my father . " |
| 2 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |
| 3 | You probably got some of the others , but it 's the red and amber that causes the problems is n't it ? |
| 4 | Senior political figures do not even acknowledge that torture exists , let alone accept that it is a widespread and routine event . |
| 5 | It is the technical and transportation problems of moving coal from Siberia where most of the reserves are to be found , to the main areas of use , which have and will restrict development . |
| 6 | It was a dour and racking prospect . |
| 7 | I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent . |
| 8 | He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter . |
| 9 | It was an expensive and time consuming task to remove it . |
| 10 | But he was a warm and kind man . |
| 11 | He was a vegetarian and teetotaller and , in Hobbes 's view ( so Aubrey tells us ) , ‘ the sweetest-natured man in the world ’ . |