Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 2 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 3 | This has been brought about in two ways , first , by specific EEC Directives which insist , for instance , that Britain gives preference to EEC countries with respect to her sales of North Sea oil . |
| 4 | It was the first multi-cultural CPRW meeting I have been to — most refreshing ! |
| 5 | No doubt it was the finest accolade from an old Etonian , and no doubt it meant something then when miners were regarded as dark , ignoble savages both by the respectable Brighton ladies who are a typical target for Orwell 's abuse and among the respectable , washed working class . |
| 6 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka was selected on June 20 as leader of the second-largest LDP faction which had been led by Shintaro Abe until his death in May . |
| 7 | ‘ The rich Miss Havisham who lives all alone in the big house in town ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 8 | I realized this must be the rich Miss Oliver who had generously furnished my cottage . |
| 9 | However , the two by-election defeats together with consistently poor opinion poll ratings , appeared to have increased pressure — particularly from those 75 LDP legislators whose seats were at stake in July — for Miyazawa to be replaced prior to the election . |
| 10 | At 97 Mafeking Street there were four ; and think yourself lucky . |
| 11 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 12 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 13 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 14 | ‘ That Friday night we just sat there rocking her backwards and forwards and crying . |
| 15 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 16 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 17 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 18 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 19 | He looks right David Lawrence I must say and that was a very , very quick delivery and getting back to your other point , that slips coming forward going back , it 's just every now and again that it does n't come out right from David Lawrence , it goes down comparatively slowly , but when he does get it right , it really flies through to slips . |
| 20 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 21 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 22 | From Catania , where they played a vital role in their country 's successful bid for a place in next year 's World Sevens finals , the two Taiwanese stars , flanker Jon Teng Sing and winger Chyan Shuonn Mae , headed for Paris to join the multi-national FIRA selection which made a four-match , two-test tour to Namibia . |
| 23 | The very pleasant Dias family who own the hotel will make great efforts to help you with any activities in Goa . |
| 24 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 25 | Saltburn are confident that in new professional Mukund Parmar they have a player who will get them lots of runs and wickets . |
| 26 | The Profitboss , in developing his contacts , never forgets that the friendly Steven Cook he met at the conference last month might just be the head of purchasing for a major customer in two years ' time . |
| 27 | Ian Leigh Glover making slow recoveries but at least there 's good news in the return of centre half Colin Cooper who starts his first game for two months and two recently injured strikers are back in tandem , ironically the biggest partnership in the Division . |
| 28 | I drank nothing at lunch , despite the horrendous Malvinas Surprise I ordered ( a triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks ) . |
| 29 | Eighteen year old Jason Raby who carried out the attack … and Anthony Langton who 's twenty-three and told him what to do … both admitted causing Mrs Cooper grevous bodily harm . |
| 30 | ‘ You are so obsessed with this Maria Luisa you 're not thinking straight . |