Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the head of a major I ca n't think of the guy 's name and he just had a major acquisition and this guy was |
| 2 | The Curator had laughed and told him , ‘ Mr Wolski you really are a bit of a revolutionary you know . |
| 3 | When all of a sudden they dropped a bomb and I thought there was n't at all , you see , and no siren had gone , nothing , you see , and there was broad daylight . |
| 4 | Of a sudden she looked old . |
| 5 | Of a sudden he sat down in a chair and Joe , looking at him , had a strange thought , for his mind was saying that if men could cry , Martin would be crying now . |
| 6 | Of a sudden he was running , flying up the stairs . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better find out just how much of a romantic you are , Dr Blake . ’ |
| 8 | That 's sort of a crunchy I think , a crickl crackly thing . |
| 9 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 10 | Christmas Eve and in he come said he got the , I , he do n't recognise , they do n't recognise him , he got like a black he says Ho , Ho , are you all behaving yourselves , Victoria sitting there giving it yeah |
| 11 | You know the publicity from us would be like a small I do n't know what size , just a small leaflet . |
| 12 | Make her sound like a complete you know |
| 13 | That 's right it was like a huge I say huge I do n't know how many gallons it would hold , it was a fair copper . |
| 14 | I 'm looking now for a nice you know . |
| 15 | For a different I 'm going to That 's right . |
| 16 | For a Tyrian you 're quite an interesting person . ’ |
| 17 | I agree , and this can stand as a cogent it incomplete description of what is meant by a political homosexuality . |
| 18 | He remains at heart a boy who grew up on a busy farm at St Martin 's , 14 miles from Llanymynech , the course on which as a seven-year-old he first took a golf club in his hands . |
| 19 | When you 've coped with a positive situation , which is in fact , I believe is is er , will do more harm that good , as a personal I believe , |
| 20 | Almost as a throw-away they added a fifth , the outward sprawl characteristic of outer London . |
| 21 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 22 | ‘ If they do n't know the face and you 're dressed as a casual they look you up and down . |
| 23 | SO Sarah Ferguson is deemed unsuitable for life as a Royal it seems to me many of the ‘ real ’ Royals are equally unsuitable . |
| 24 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 25 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 26 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 27 | As a preliminary we shall begin to examine the problem of how different kinds of discourse can be categorized , and the parameters which are best used to distinguish them . |
| 28 | Then we 're sending a letter which erm , well let me just say , we are then also sending , now here with the D I Y , the numbers er coincide Here the numbers coincide with the illustrations , so if I talk about a certain you have to look at paper one , paper two paper three or A B C. And you see what they look like . |
| 29 | How about a separate we hate wilko group ? ? ? |
| 30 | I think I think y with a certain you get an |