Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 2 | Mosley repeatedly argued that his Blackshirt organization was a self-defence force and that although he could have disrupted other political meetings he never chose to do so . |
| 3 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 4 | She and her husband are members of the National Trust and when visiting stately homes they often come across portraits of those she refers to as ‘ my people ’ ; she has been able to obtain copies some of them . |
| 5 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 6 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 7 | It 's just odd words you sometimes |
| 8 | Great wines they may be , but it is hard to define these wines as good sparkling wines and classic Champagnes they most certainly are not . |
| 9 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 10 | For some minutes she again wondered if Cara would have fared any better . |
| 11 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 12 | Some times are predictable ; some times you just wait till they 're full ; other times we arrange a group . |
| 13 | By the way , members can now get a pint at the sports club in N.E. Some times I even venture into town you know , but only when my mum lets me . |
| 14 | By the way , members can now get a pint at the sports club in N.E. Some times I even venture into town you know , but only when my mum lets me . |
| 15 | It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey . |
| 16 | After 4 attempts and 2 hours they finally got 568 kayaks strung together and held only by hands for 30 seconds before departing 5km down to Holme Pierrepont for a fun afternoon . |
| 17 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 18 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 19 | They believed in the Tsar ; socialism meant nothing to them ; in some cases they actually handed the ‘ troublemakers ’ over to the police . |
| 20 | ‘ In some cases she plainly injected insulin . |
| 21 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 22 | If the Diamond Phoenix had been supplied with proper drivers it most probably would have done a little better , overtaking the Western Systems . |
| 23 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 24 | A bright future for London 's securities firms would , oddly , be nearer if in the next few months they once again lost oodles of cash . |
| 25 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 26 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 27 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |
| 28 | They 're ductile malleable do n't need the proper words you just say they can be pulled out . |
| 29 | One of one of one of the most charming speakers I ever heard , he was . |
| 30 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |