Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Besides , Georgina must know that Fowler-Thrown and Ivor were rivals ; and that was the blandest possible construction you could put on their relationship . |
2 | And erm then the next day they came over and David was laughing , he said , do you , do you know the alley way down between he said , well it blew it her up right against that bloody wall he said ! |
3 | ‘ Getting my own back , ’ Dexter smiled , ‘ for all that bloody opera you were playing in the car today . ’ |
4 | cos she keeps saying to me oh when you have that bloody tank she keeps nagging and nagging to have it . |
5 | All that bloody crap I 've had . |
6 | Because I love you , and I want what little private life I have to be steady and permanent , ’ Scott said . |
7 | That bloody awful feller she 's with . |
8 | fucking er it was like that but they ai n't just do n't go and get very close to the like that So I 've gone up under arch of the wheel got my like that right state I got in ! |
9 | But particularly in the absence of a coherent professional philosophy it is reasonable to suppose that social and occupational origins also play an important part in shaping judicial attitudes to imprisonment in this country . |
10 | As justification for claiming strong Norman support he could advance the wickedness of Harold , the ‘ backwardness ’ of the English church , the increasing separation of Scandinavian — English politics from the mainlines of central and southern European development and , perhaps most immediately attractive to his baronial supporters , the promise of considerable territorial gains if the gamble came off . |
11 | That Labour amendment I read out mentioned the airport money . |
12 | ‘ That half-hearted performance you put on back at the police station wo n't be enough to convince her , not after what she witnessed last night … all your near-hysterical ramblings ! ’ |
13 | ‘ Yes , it 's that fabulous putter we sorted out for him . ’ |
14 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
15 | Invoking Pythagoras applied to the right angled triangle we have : — |
16 | To be fully professional , one needs to express feelings and give responses to the feelings of the sufferer but nonetheless be aware that within that professional relationship it is not relevant that one should be personally liked or even appreciated . |
17 | ‘ That awful girl you took to Greece , ’ explained Lydia . |
18 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
19 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
20 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
21 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
22 | She had therefore sent advance copies to Prince Albert , the Earl of Shaftesbury and Charles Kingsley to whom she referred to ‘ that awful book I have been forced to write ’ . |
23 | She means Trouble , with a capital T. Trouble with Lapointe , with other men , with bitchy women , with her moods , her stammer , her embarrassing conversation , her tears , and that awful habit she has of staring at people … . |
24 | And with that subtle remark he left the room . |
25 | On that narrow bed we were so close together . |
26 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
27 | For skills and thrills and nailbiting , edge-of-the-seat gladiatorial tension it knocks spots off its US counterpart . |
28 | Through the United Nations and the European Economic Community we shall certainly be doing all that we can to encourage the social reforms — for example , the reform of land ownership — to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
29 | I could n't get Nutty to wear that flowered frock you gave him , he 's dead ignorant and I wish you 'd send the lads to sort him out again . |
30 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |