Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope I 've misunderstood , but it seems to me that Ace 's romantic attachment has just lost us our last chance to prevent this , ’ she waved her arms in a circle , ‘ this monstrosity from wiping out an entire planetary system and its inhabitants . |
| 3 | That 's because I 'm going to suggest , so we call them interim fieldwork re , interim fieldwork reports . |
| 4 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 5 | Thanks for seeing me this evening er |
| 6 | You gon na do better for me this time Ga ? |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't ask the fuzz the time if it would save me old granny 's life . ’ |
| 8 | We had a hedgehog last year , I have n't seen them this winter er you know since |
| 9 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 10 | You 'll have to give me plenty of notice , mind , me social diary 's chocka . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 12 | In my Working Group 's recommendations for the teaching of literature we tried to balance the arguments for national unity with the need for a curriculum which respected the present cultural diversity of our society ( the same desire for unity and diversity underpins our recommendations on Standard English and dialects ) . |
| 13 | Much has been made of the ‘ feminine shape ’ of My Bloody Valentine 's music , and this also extends to the ‘ wombadelia ’ of Spiritualized and the neutered fumblings of the shoe-gazers and much of the second division of indie rock . |
| 14 | Er er there was something else , I I sorry Greg y you were going to raise |
| 15 | Erm the second er request was for to work in respect of the Greater York area , and unfortunately my unbounded optimism erm in respect of that has not borne fruition . |
| 16 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |
| 17 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 18 | No erm su er no hang on , hang on my regional , they want my regional accent er well I would have said it 's standard received northern . |
| 19 | My dear mother 's optimism had to be heard to be believed . |
| 20 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 21 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 22 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 23 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 24 | He favoured her with a slightly haggard smile , but his voice was dry and laboured as he said : ‘ I 'm delighted to meet my old friend 's niece . |
| 25 | I put on my old trouser 's and welly boots this morning , it said it was going to be so messy . |
| 26 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 27 | They 've dug up a lot of human bones at my old uncle 's house … ‘ |
| 28 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 29 | Here he is captured at his influential peak — 1958 –'63; — on his TV series knocking out such favourites as ‘ My Old Man 's A Dustman ’ , ‘ Tom Dooley ’ and the recently Dylanised ‘ Froggie Went-A-Courtin' ’ . |
| 30 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |