Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind that badge you feel a bit special . |
| 2 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
| 3 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 4 | But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon . |
| 5 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 6 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
| 7 | Each Easter he made wonderful bejewelled eggs for the tsars or kings of Russia . |
| 8 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 9 | But by 1750 fashion had changed — look at the new style of English landscape garden — and artists and poets set out to explore their own island in search of the picturesque ; in due course they arrived in Cumberland . |
| 10 | To each meeting members brought rare plants for general discussion and in due course they decided to publish their findings in a series of illustrated catalogues . |
| 11 | But both found themselves possessed of a consuming interest in astronomy , to which in due course they devoted the rest of their lives after disposing of other distractions — in Hubble 's case , his law , and national service in two world wars . |
| 12 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 13 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 14 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 15 | In due course he succeeded his father as king in Egypt , marrying his sister Isis . |
| 16 | In due course he calls witnesses — eye witnesses , police , inspectors from the AIB and others — to substantiate his account . |
| 17 | And in due course he came … |
| 18 | In due course he moved , like Dominic , to Bologna , from whose schools he was promoted chamber clerk to Pope Honorius III before 1224 . |
| 19 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 20 | In due course I left Varndean and went to do business studies at Sussex University . |
| 21 | But in due course I discovered that the local historian had done very little actual firsthand gathering of data himself : he was a wealthy man and had employed a number of impecunious schoolteachers to be his ‘ research assistants ’ . |
| 22 | Only his politics are bad , about which in due course I did ‘ warn ’ . |
| 23 | In due course it became apparent that all of mathematics could be made to rest upon a set-theoretic base . |
| 24 | In due course it became known as Thriddle , or Bouncy Shaft . |
| 25 | For the trade unions to buck existing laws ( eg. to cut off supplies to the factory ) would involve them in a political struggle they do not have the strength or will to win — against the government , against the employers , against ‘ public opinion ’ . |
| 26 | Overall , even if they do get the paper they want , it does not follow that they get the political coverage they want . |
| 27 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 28 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
| 29 | he 's taken that son-in-law you know he 's |
| 30 | Of course she could n't leave Henrietta alone in the house , the tall building she had bought with great-aunt Dorothy 's money . |