Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
2 | Driver so drunk he had to stay in cells |
3 | Then I made the description so precise I would always find some reason to reject each and every candidate . |
4 | I bled on the afterdeck so much I heard the skipper say to the mate : |
5 | 2 sheep have been abandoned in a field , their fleece so heavy they can hardly walk . |
6 | The nature of this talk rather surprised me . |
7 | No C , a penis so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles , they 'll be killing themselves wo n't they ? |
8 | Abruptly , the dark head was bent to hers again , the compulsive brush of his lips against the side of her neck so searing it felt as if they grazed her skin . |
9 | Close by reared the immense domed bulk of the Palais de Justice , a complex so large it covered a greater area than St Peter 's in Rome . |
10 | We spent the rest of the week at the cinema , stuffing ourselves hotly with popcorn so oily it stained our clothes . |
11 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
12 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
13 | Slightly less competitive than a Hillman Hunter and a good deal less reliable it has yet to race . |
14 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
15 | ‘ She 's getting up speed now just-like she does with the hammer . |
16 | If you , if you listen back to that tape now all you 'll hear is them twittering away |
17 | But the lads have been tremendous , and there 's a buzz around the club now all we want now is for them to show the same attitude tonight . ’ |
18 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
19 | A natter about ten I 'd expect wo n't it next week ? |
20 | Between them Rain and Oliver told Cobalt almost all they knew about the night of the murder and about the paintings . |
21 | If you are confronted with an aggressively rude interviewer who makes the interview very stressful you may want to ask yourself whether you could possibly be happy working in such an atmosphere anyway . |
22 | There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too . |
23 | Not stopping now I have n't got no money anyway sorry I have n't got any money for the tape oh dear |
24 | Or is your cover-up act so complete you wo n't even let yourself see through those damned barriers ? ’ |
25 | A sun so hot it would dry out an eagle 's wings ! |
26 | At nights , particularly , she had felt loneliness so great it was as if a hole had been torn in her soul , something irreplaceable had been ripped from her . |
27 | She put out a hand , and the thing wrapped itself around her arm , warm and dry and tingling — and Bernice was suddenly struck by a question so obvious it stunned her . |
28 | He watched me with an anxiety and a pity so powerful I walked away . |
29 | Further along , there was an Eastern Sea ship , beating down under its huge sail along the desert coast on its way south to Punt to collect a cargo of exotica : blackwood so dense it sank in water ; the fierce spotted cats which could be tamed to become the pets , or hunting land falcons of the rich ; myrrh ; the long teeth of the great forest beast . |
30 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |