Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 2 | Took about bloody half an hour to get it out the pan ! |
| 3 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 4 | For example , the pH in the stomach of a great horned owl was 2.2 before a meal and increased to 2.4 half an hour after eating , with further increases to 2.7 two hours after the meal and 3.0 four hours afterwards . |
| 5 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 6 | By 1850 half the population lived in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants , far ahead of any other European country . |
| 7 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 8 | Harpin , for example , follows the traditional primary curriculum model of writing , distinguishing only the creative and the factual , but admits that this a weakness in his work . |
| 9 | but it annoys me that , why , you see , I 'm , I 'm asking for cover for technical half an hour in the morning |
| 10 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 11 | Despite Gorbachev 's assurances to two Armenian emissaries that a ‘ just solution ’ would be found , the Supreme Soviet Presidium warned on 23 March that ‘ self-proclaimed groups ’ ( a reference to the Karabakh Committee , a group of Armenian activists whose activities were made illegal ) could not be allowed to call for the redrawing of state and administrative boundaries , and Pravda made clear that the transfer of . |
| 12 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 13 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 14 | Erm I still have to come back in some ways Patrick to er this this no car situation . |
| 15 | Er particularly if you look just at the ordinary wall fronts the front wall the stones are very much more heavily eroded there than they are on this this the aisle here . |
| 16 | The town itself lay some half a mile distant , its gentle grey houses clustered , in a hollow , on each side of the twining silver river , like a flock of drowsy sheep . |
| 17 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 18 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 19 | She returned some half an hour later to find the Shill 's bedroom door open and Joseph gone . |
| 20 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have used some half an hour ago , in the sauce . |
| 22 | Having deliberately taken her time , Luce descended the stairs some half an hour later , looking flower-fresh , her wispy fringe brushed to one side , her hair curling loosely on to her shoulders . |
| 23 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 24 | He 'd returned some half an hour later to transport her down again . |
| 25 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 26 | After ascending for another half a mile the line dropped steeply into the quarry . |
| 27 | A report from the Srebrenica Press Centre received in Sarajevo yesterday said the Serb offensive was continuing and Serb forces had advanced another half a mile into the area held by Bosnian forces . |
| 28 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 29 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 30 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |