Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Still bringing wages home to me dear old mum , ’ said Joe , who spent the occasional weekend with his parents in their Chatham home and was always there at Christmas . |
| 2 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 3 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | Some of them used broken chairs to hit people . |
| 5 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 6 | Properly used , it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject . |
| 7 | The newcomer noticed it , declared , ‘ I like hot steam ; it gives me that real sauna feeling ’ , squeezed herself between two naked bodies and at once began to talk about yesterday 's television talk show featuring a famous biologist who had just published his memoirs . |
| 8 | It seems to me that innovative courses could with advantage be handled in virtually the same way . |
| 9 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 10 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 11 | Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] . |
| 12 | It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow . |
| 13 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 14 | when this lot goes out to consultation you come back and te to me that other people are n't putting their arms up in air , about the reduction in services , or what are preceiv or what are perceived , no hang on , |
| 15 | It has occurred to me that other staff within the Royal Bank may be in a similar position to myself , holding a small number of shares which would cost more than their worth to sell . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 17 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked her to marry me that first night . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I actually asked her to marry me that first night , and she said yes , ’ says Barry . |
| 20 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 21 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 22 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 23 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
| 24 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 25 | It seems to me that certain people in F1 can get away with anything they want and that has just been demonstrated here today . ’ |
| 26 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 27 | I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money . |
| 28 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll hit you if you keep callin' me that daft name , ’ said Dolly . |
| 30 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |