Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 2 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 3 | all the annoying Germany always pops up at the wrong , the wrong most inopportune time . |
| 4 | Exogenous PGs also cause diarrhoea . |
| 5 | Old Jan always tagged along when Bruce went round his place . |
| 6 | Oh no , no way , my shop 's in Old Harlow always has been |
| 7 | In 1963 the ageing Adenauer finally resigned and the new Chancellor , Ludwig Erhard , began to establish tentative trade links with eastern Europe . |
| 8 | No one is quite sure whether Baxter 's stories are fact or fiction but like that other legendary wordsmith , the former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly , Slim Jim never let reality get in the way of a good yarn . |
| 9 | When an exasperated Bassett eventually did tell them to shut up , two of them immediately demanded police action because THEY had been offended and an investigation ensued . |
| 10 | Poor old Jim always has to make the decision because he is in command , okay ? |
| 11 | In a side which included Pat Stanton , Peter Cormack , Colin Stein and John Blackley , the teenage Marinello quickly became one of the rising young stars of Scottish football . |
| 12 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 13 | In Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 's sensible Edward much prefers a ‘ snug farmhouse ’ to ‘ ruined , tattered cottages ’ , a preference which amazes Marianne , who cultivates her sensibilities . |
| 14 | Much woodland in the High Weald again consists of coppice , in this instance sweet chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) on the sandier soils , and hornbeam ( Carpinus betula ) on the heavier soils , often grown in pure stands . |
| 15 | It will hopefully provide firmer evidence than assembled hitherto on whether medieval England already had the highly distinctive pattern of late female marriage and high proportions never-marrying that is known to have been firmly established in sixteenth century evidence contained in the parish registers . |
| 16 | Erm , was , or so his critics said , that er his theory just would not work and the kind of argument that they produced against him , and poor old Darwin really did n't have an answer to this , and i it seemed a very very severe problem at the time was look , supposing that er I 'm a mutant you might think . |
| 17 | The Scottish MLTB also run a winter award . |
| 18 | BRITISH Telecom yesterday offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the prosecution of arsonists who caused major fires at two telephone exchanges . |
| 19 | British Telecom currently has to comply with the featherbedding European directive for essentially historical reasons , both because of its past as a state-owned company , and as a result of its previous status as a dominant carrier , which arguably it still is . |
| 20 | Indeed , the efficiency of a denationalized , deregulated British Telecom somewhat declined thereafter , and led to complaints about poor service and rising telephone bills . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did . |
| 22 | Old Webb-Bowen nearly had a stroke . ’ |
| 23 | However , the West German CDU later pressed Schnur , who had been taken into hospital after collapsing with circulatory problems , to resign after the allegations had been further substantiated . |
| 24 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 25 | The MOH has changed policies to adapt to donor demands and foreign NGOs now control many districts . |
| 26 | There 's a story about er Pythagoras which is actually the earliest and strongest evidence that the historical Pythagoras actually believed in , changing erm dating from the five twenties or so . |
| 27 | No canal crossing the constantly changing contours of the English Midlands ever had enough water , so a significant increase in traffic would only be possible if existing supplies were conserved and more supplies developed . |
| 28 | How unlucky for poor old Cooper finally getting back into the side and then not lasting more than forty five minutes cos of that shoulder injury . |
| 29 | IPSWICH youngster Gavin Johnson makes his dream trip to Old Trafford today planning to extend Manchester United 's nightmare start to the season . |
| 30 | PAUL RIDEOUT goes to Old Trafford tonight admitting ‘ Dion Dublin did me a favour by joining Manchester United . ’ |