Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 2 | All right I 'll put y Oh by the way the tickets have gone those tickets have gone but you can get them on the door at the Mapley Plain Social Club this Wednesday in Nottingham and you can see the Ivy League Alf , Berry and Heather Nixon , Night Ride organist and drummer and the compere Peter Lawrie six quid the tickets are admission at eight o'clock this Wednesday an all star show at the Mapley Plain Social Club in Nottingham . |
| 3 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 4 | In early December a former Kuwaiti minister had estimated total costs resulting from the invasion at over US$40,000 million , half as a result of destruction and looting , and half as a result of the freezing of Kuwaiti foreign assets , losses to private businesses and unrealized oil production . |
| 5 | She died in Oxford 24 April 1927 ( her husband had died 31 January the same year ) . |
| 6 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 7 | Fereby was the trustee empowered to administer the estate supporting both the School and the chapel at Woodhead ; the properties were listed in full in his will of 28th July 1506 , and transferred to the Company by a deed of 6th August the same year . |
| 8 | The Stathern map of 1792 shows the same planning of new roads in more or less straight lines and judging by what the Ordnance map shows in other parts of the Midlands and eastern England the same thing happened fairly generally . |
| 9 | It is worth saying that in all recent discussions about eastern Europe the former Soviet Union — viewed at one time as a Great Red Hope for ELT — is barely mentioned . |
| 10 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 11 | From 23 January to 6 March the same gallery will be showing Belgian artist Eric Weiss 's installation entitled ‘ A poet with a machine gun ’ . |
| 12 | She turned the pages quickly , ran her finger down a column , and said , ‘ Ah , Ian Woodall , qualified London the same year as Robert Sheldrake . |
| 13 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
| 14 | The simple guilloche decoration of mosaic 7 appears slightly cruder than that of mosaics B or C. The more complicated three-strand guilloche of the former , however , is not significantly inferior to the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C. The former appears to be " stretched " , but then the latter seems to be cramped ( although " loose " ) . |
| 15 | An overall poverty of colour , and the use of slightly larger ( but still well-cut ) tesserae in mosaic 7 , produce many of the contrasts of this mosaic with mosaic C. The latter , therefore , remains a more accomplished design , but it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that some of the same craftsmen and some identical plans or ideas were employed at Verulamium . |
| 16 | Last March the former snake importer went for a job as a delivery driver . |
| 17 | Last Friday the same fifteen ran in thirty one points against Transvaal … in all there are seven changes to the side that lost to West hartlepool in the last league game … tomorrow they ca n't afford to break … it 's got to be win or bust . |
| 18 | In the elections last October no fewer than 29 parties gained seats in the lower house . |