Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That bloody awful feller she 's with . |
| 2 | But particularly in the absence of a coherent professional philosophy it is reasonable to suppose that social and occupational origins also play an important part in shaping judicial attitudes to imprisonment in this country . |
| 3 | As justification for claiming strong Norman support he could advance the wickedness of Harold , the ‘ backwardness ’ of the English church , the increasing separation of Scandinavian — English politics from the mainlines of central and southern European development and , perhaps most immediately attractive to his baronial supporters , the promise of considerable territorial gains if the gamble came off . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least . |
| 5 | Invoking Pythagoras applied to the right angled triangle we have : — |
| 6 | ‘ If Mam was upset that night it was Viola 's doing . |
| 7 | For skills and thrills and nailbiting , edge-of-the-seat gladiatorial tension it knocks spots off its US counterpart . |
| 8 | Through the United Nations and the European Economic Community we shall certainly be doing all that we can to encourage the social reforms — for example , the reform of land ownership — to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 9 | Winston Churchill ( C , Davyhulme ) said : ‘ If it was nothing other than a short-term political fix I do not believe it would get through the House of Commons . |
| 10 | After two or three days I bought the landlord a carafe of his own wine — the mean-mouthed varlet picked a costly , unsealed jar , not the usual watery vinegar he served most of his customers — and asked him about Selkirk . |
| 11 | But on longer-term issues such as membership of the European Monetary System she remained hostile . |
| 12 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 13 | What a strange medieval mind you have , I thought . |
| 14 | ‘ In today 's strange old world we have to face up to many unusual things . ’ |
| 15 | One strong English interest he has retained is cricket . |
| 16 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 17 | W first of all though I think I 've got them right this time I hope , the World Health Organization , charities , the United Nations , the European Commission erm foreign business organizations and l the bodies that lay down regulations er for activities . |
| 18 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 19 | We struck out for Cambridge and although we made the odd wrong turn they were quickly rectified and with luck on our side we found the hotel . |
| 20 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 21 | What it relates to is the specific historical reconstruction it . |
| 22 | This is due not their merit , but to the extensive free advertising they have benefited from which is not available to their competitors . |
| 23 | The older Colonel beamed about him and Hope tried to execute yet another manoeuvre with Miss D'Arcy — to get her to conspire ( silently of course and with the finest subtlety ) with him against her guardian so that the two of them could be saying ‘ what a dear old gentleman he is ’ and use this to draw closer together . |
| 24 | ‘ In a right old sweat he was , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee tranquilly . |
| 25 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 26 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 27 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 28 | The body lay diagonally across the path , as he had said , not quite flat on its face and breast , rather on the right shoulder , but with the right arm flung clear behind , and the left groping wide beside him , clear of the folds of the coarse hooded cloak he wore . |
| 29 | After looking at various books and pictures of English rural life they decide what jobs they will have in this community — fishing , farming , milling , etc . |
| 30 | By securing the support of the head teacher and staff of a different mainstream school she was able to place her opposition to a recommendation for residential schooling on a firm footing and insist that her understanding of Tom 's needs be tested in practice . |