Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I did hold passionate beliefs , I was a bit young to express them all . |
| 2 | You were a bit silly to put it all in at once , were n't you really ? |
| 3 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |
| 4 | He seemed to have become her creature , though she was the one on a drug supposed to make her passive . |
| 5 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 6 | And if a journalist able to do you any kind of legitimate favour he or she will certainly feel that you owe him or her one in return ; this debt may be called in when you are least able to be informative . |
| 7 | To a degree this made him vulnerable : Vichy propagandists had an opportunity to fill in the blanks , by vilifying him as a deserter in the pay of the British or of Jewish interests . |
| 8 | In a remark certain to earn him four more faults from horse lovers , he declared : ‘ It probably costs 10 or l2 million dollars to prepare the three-day event course for one day . |
| 9 | She was sent for psychiatric treatment in March after a court martial found her guilty of the manslaughter of riding instructress Marika Sparfeld at the military base in August last year . |
| 10 | He bet a mere $50,000 — tempting enough for Dastmalchi to call in the forlorn hope of a miracle six to fill his inside straight . |
| 11 | She is charged with wilfully assaulting her daughter on March 11 this year in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health . |
| 12 | She is charged with wilfully assaulting her baby on March 11 this year in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering or injury to health at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Sydney Street , Chelsea , where the infant was being treated . |
| 13 | Joshua Cohen was a man able to keep his own counsel — and other people 's , too . |
| 14 | If possible find a solicitor or a barrister willing to advise you free of charge — perhaps out of office hours , when the meter is not ticking . |
| 15 | Mrs Hannaway , in a letter to the court , pleaded guilty to a charge of abandoning the animal in a way likely to cause it unnecessary suffering . |