Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 2 | Despite extensive searching I was never able to find them again . |
| 3 | The results of the model developed in the following sections are not specific to the particular type of private good we have chosen , reputation . |
| 4 | To devotees of Victorian Gothic they are dark forces that terrorize by night , sapping vital fluids , sacrificing an innocent life merely to gratify a thirst . |
| 5 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 6 | This form of temporary working we shall call " agency working " . |
| 7 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 8 | Nearly three-quarters of all agency workers live in the South East of England , the only significant regional disparity with respect to the incidence of temporary working we discovered . |
| 9 | The Business General Manager or their nominated representative will create and maintain in conjunction with each national , territorial or local management as appropriate a list of named local SHE contacts to support the product and process stewards . |
| 10 | It is rather unexpectedly glutinous and flabby to the touch — all-in-all rather unpleasant , if it were not for the splash of vivid yellow it gives to an otherwise sombre winter hedgerow . |
| 11 | The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business . |
| 12 | They are , therefore , formulaic in character and although they may call for some adaptation for contextual fit they are not composed on each occasion from constituent parts . |
| 13 | Aloud , she said : " Nico , what a gorgeous gown so grown-up — not like silly itty-bitty me . " |
| 14 | All those policemen for poor little them ? |
| 15 | Looking up at the great leather bag of water and the funnel to be inserted into her mouth , the murderess had said , ‘ What , all that water for poor little me ? ’ |
| 16 | The prosperity of the wood-pasture region of Suffolk was fully comparable ; with minimal arable it did not require the same great numbers of labourers as the cornfields farther west , a feature that clearly marks the boundary between the chalk soils and the clay loams . |
| 17 | Finzi 's sinuous melodies for the solo instrument are made to sound as though the soloist is improvising them , and with extreme daring she uses the widest possible dynamic range down to a whispered pianissimo that might be inaudible in a concert-hall . |
| 18 | In old Annamese it means Village of the Boxwoods , after the trees that originally grew there . |
| 19 | ( In early 1989 it was revealed that the aristocrat was close to bankruptcy , the Purple Rain fortune dissipated in over-lavish stageshows and in supporting the stillborn careers of a seemingly endless series of protégés . ) |
| 20 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 21 | His parliamentary role continued to grow in importance : in early 1678 he chaired committees of the whole House on supply and on ways and means . |
| 22 | In early 1945 I went with U Kyaw Min to Ceylon to talk to British forces which were then thought to be waiting for a seaborne invasion of Burma . |
| 23 | ‘ In early 1991 we had particular problems in achieving the levels of service on the Back Office system which would enable branches to meet their business needs . |
| 24 | Lagos State , controlled by the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , now has its own television station on the air , but in early 1981 it was still not possible to watch this new state television service in central Lagos . |
| 25 | Writing in The Times Educational Supplement in early 1981 he observed |
| 26 | In early 1656 she secured a considerable degree of influence over James Nayler [ q.v. ] , whose works were published first by Calvert and then by Thomas Simmonds . |
| 27 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |
| 28 | They hankered for the bright lights of the capital , so in early 1778 they sold up and headed once again for London . |
| 29 | In early 1855 he intended to press on after assessing the degree of continuing Anglo-French hostility and the extent to which the Sultan 's Christian subjects had rallied to his banner . |
| 30 | In early 1968 he was appointed general secretary of the government 's Economic Council , but lost all his positions in 1969 . |