Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first multi-cultural CPRW meeting I have been to — most refreshing ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ That Friday night we just sat there rocking her backwards and forwards and crying . |
| 5 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 10 | I drank nothing at lunch , despite the horrendous Malvinas Surprise I ordered ( a triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks ) . |
| 11 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 12 | And after after he came and settled , my three brothers went and dig dig the graves in the old Llaneilian church you know . |
| 13 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 14 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 15 | It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true . |
| 16 | Is , yeah you 're a good old Beatles fan you are Jo . |
| 17 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
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| 20 | the Tigersharks are one of the most successful clubs of its kind in the country … 20 have qualified for the national championships next month and in sixteen year old Jaime King they have one of the best breastrokers in the world … |
| 21 | This Monday morning she was intending to register with a secretarial agency ; a temporary job would do while she looked for something more permanent . |
| 22 | This Julian person we 're referring to is , is a complete and utter crimple |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , this Sunday evening she did n't turn up and the woman in Hayle had n't seen her — had n't expected her . |
| 24 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 25 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 26 | Josie squeezed Lucy 's shoulders and said , ‘ What about this Joe person you 've talked about ? |
| 27 | FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge |
| 28 | Working on brown Ingres paper I started by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 30 | The equinoctial gales make a couple of attempts to scare us , but like an old Shetland pony we turn our backs to the wind and stick it out . |