Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , Georgina must know that Fowler-Thrown and Ivor were rivals ; and that was the blandest possible construction you could put on their relationship . |
| 2 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | And erm then the next day they came over and David was laughing , he said , do you , do you know the alley way down between he said , well it blew it her up right against that bloody wall he said ! |
| 4 | ‘ Getting my own back , ’ Dexter smiled , ‘ for all that bloody opera you were playing in the car today . ’ |
| 5 | cos she keeps saying to me oh when you have that bloody tank she keeps nagging and nagging to have it . |
| 6 | All that bloody crap I 've had . |
| 7 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 8 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 9 | Because I love you , and I want what little private life I have to be steady and permanent , ’ Scott said . |
| 10 | That bloody awful feller she 's with . |
| 11 | fucking er it was like that but they ai n't just do n't go and get very close to the like that So I 've gone up under arch of the wheel got my like that right state I got in ! |
| 12 | If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing . |
| 13 | But particularly in the absence of a coherent professional philosophy it is reasonable to suppose that social and occupational origins also play an important part in shaping judicial attitudes to imprisonment in this country . |
| 14 | As justification for claiming strong Norman support he could advance the wickedness of Harold , the ‘ backwardness ’ of the English church , the increasing separation of Scandinavian — English politics from the mainlines of central and southern European development and , perhaps most immediately attractive to his baronial supporters , the promise of considerable territorial gains if the gamble came off . |
| 15 | That Labour amendment I read out mentioned the airport money . |
| 16 | ‘ That half-hearted performance you put on back at the police station wo n't be enough to convince her , not after what she witnessed last night … all your near-hysterical ramblings ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , it 's that fabulous putter we sorted out for him . ’ |
| 18 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 19 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 20 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 21 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 22 | If she had n't been due at her craft class at eleven that morning she would have called back later , but as that was n't possible she 'd phone . |
| 23 | However , as Lennie ( 1980 ) points out , that does not mean that these cells respond more rapidly to visual stimuli than the other classes , since the latency of response to visual input is determined largely by events in the retina At low spatial frequencies they are linear but as the spatial frequency is increased non-linear properties emerge . |
| 24 | Invoking Pythagoras applied to the right angled triangle we have : — |
| 25 | To be fully professional , one needs to express feelings and give responses to the feelings of the sufferer but nonetheless be aware that within that professional relationship it is not relevant that one should be personally liked or even appreciated . |
| 26 | ‘ That awful girl you took to Greece , ’ explained Lydia . |
| 27 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 28 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 29 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 30 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |