Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 3 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 4 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 5 | Year I develops a thorough understanding of programming principles , and provides a sound basis on which to build further programming experience . |
| 6 | I says a new declaration of intent has not yet been printed . |
| 7 | I likes a nice pair of shoes on if , if I go out . |
| 8 | Like most good theories , theirs integrates a great accumulation of evidence which , once presented in a single context , makes the theory seem almost self-evident . |
| 9 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 10 | In her incisive essay she nips a few Icons of Feminist Art Theory in the ankle . |
| 11 | She represents an obnoxious type of High Church Christian , often typified by adherents to the Oxford Movement , self-consciously ‘ medieval ’ in her choice of early English saint 's names for her sons . |
| 12 | If she thinks once of Edgar Linton , she thinks a thousand times of me ! |
| 13 | And if she wants a new pair of shoes she 's got ta go to a new town and pay for them . |
| 14 | Dealings with clients ' money — a solicitor must keep a careful and separate account of any money of yours that he handles and must account to you for deposit interest if he or she holds a significant amount of your money for a significant length of time . |
| 15 | Cheryl smiles when she notices a different shade of wool on one sleeve of a cardigan . |
| 16 | She has a long coachroof of medium height and a short-ended hull on which no attempt has been made to distort the lines . |
| 17 | She has a terrific sense of humour . |
| 18 | That she has a personal panel of instructors is something which has allowed her to escape with fewer hours on the practice ground than most . |
| 19 | And she has a good pair of lungs to her , has n't she , Rose said to her three-year-old son Baptiste : she can scream good and proper that one can . |
| 20 | She has a good sense of humour , and very sporting : in other words a very nice person . |
| 21 | She has a good sense of humour — she will need it in the years to come . ’ |
| 22 | She has a good sense of humour and also shares quite a few of my interests . |
| 23 | She has a real body of work — nineteen novels , poetry , plays , criticism . |
| 24 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 25 | ‘ She has a low opinion of herself . ’ |
| 26 | Here Aphrodite is shown with her hand on Priapus ( god of fruitfulness ) , and she has a tiny figure of Eros sitting below her feet . |
| 27 | Individually they are slow ; the characters are wafer thin and have little individuality ; there is no evidence that the author is excited by language ; there is little evidence that she has a developed sense of humour . |
| 28 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 29 | ‘ She is still in bed but smiling profusely she has a lovely pair of eyes . ’ |
| 30 | She has a lucky knack of falling into fits when she pleases . |