Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 2 | If the bottom is too weedy for this I continually re-bait and cast . |
| 3 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 4 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 5 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 6 | I suppose it 's something to be grateful for that I can do anything useful for you , so stop worrying . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry about that she said ! |
| 8 | In case you 're finishing work at five and you 're not then I 'm sorry about that it has n't worked out right has it . |
| 9 | The industry which we are part of is in excuse me , is in er sorry about this I 've dashed across here |
| 10 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 11 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 12 | It was pointed out that the education budget had grown each year since 1988 and that for 1991 it again exceeded the defence budget . |
| 13 | Again and again in the night hours she thought of him , of his aggression and of the barely veiled hint in his parting shot ‘ so long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ that for all she had , so far , gone along with everything he had decreed , she could still find herself out of a job if she did n't toe the line . |
| 14 | It 's got an image , it 's got an emotional contact and I think we 're gon na play that for all it 's worth . |
| 15 | In marketing terms it 's a tremendous card to play erm our marketing line in the States was always ‘ we speak your language , a common heritage , a common culture erm almost a common language ’ and erm the special relationship really exits at a time like this to a very marked degree , and we shall be playing that for all it 's worth , certainly . |
| 16 | I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners ! |
| 17 | Thank goodness , though that for all he was n't so free with his smiles he had a terrific sense of humour and had not held against her the blunt , not to say impolite way she 'd asked if he was prepared to give her an interview . |
| 18 | ‘ And you say she said that eagles of Callanish carry a burden and that for some it is hard … ’ and her voice drifted into a distance . |
| 19 | Edward Thompson has argued that there was a change in popular sentiment in that after 1791 it was no longer possible for the " establishment " to pressure radicals by raising " Church and King " mobs against them and their property . |
| 20 | I 'm recording this , well like I 'm only lying No , yeah , I know you must be so gutted after that you going oh I would n't dump him for anyone oh well , now you can go out Oh my god there 's Paul . |
| 21 | My mum does n't have a clue where he is and says she does n't think she can divorce him because of this for all we know he could be dead . |
| 22 | My mum does n't have a clue where he is and says she does n't think she can divorce him because of this for all we know he could be dead . |
| 23 | There a nice pair of fours ace high there er seven , pair of nines , ace high about all you got really that 's all of it whatever you got . |
| 24 | Which remi reminds me , I 've got to get some for all they spare children before |
| 25 | It could be northerly for all I know . |
| 26 | He could have been scared rigid for all I know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How can you treat me like this after all I have sacrificed for you ? ’ |
| 28 | This of confining you thus may perhaps be one of the worst . |
| 29 | So you only have to learn half of these you do n't have to learn all of them cos you can always switch it round . |
| 30 | America , hitherto an exporter of metals , began to import half of those it needed . |