Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked her to marry me that first night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I actually asked her to marry me that first night , and she said yes , ’ says Barry . |
| 7 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 8 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 9 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 10 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll hit you if you keep callin' me that daft name , ’ said Dolly . |
| 14 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |
| 15 | My reflex actions had never failed me , as if these were computerised signals informing me that immediate action was vital . |
| 16 | ‘ Must you call me that ridiculous name ? ’ |
| 17 | Yet 35 years of research have convinced me that managerial hierarchy is the most efficient , the hardiest , and in fact the most natural structure ever devised for large organizations . |
| 18 | So it seems to me that parental investment erm theory is , is much better because not only is it universally applicable , it also explains why the sexes a are , are the way they are in ultimate evolutionary terms and that talk about hormones and sex chromosomes never can do . |
| 19 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 20 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 21 | ‘ You should never have sent me that cruel letter this morning . |
| 22 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 23 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |
| 24 | She told me that last week ! |
| 25 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 26 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 27 | ‘ Spare me that puzzled smile , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm the person who had dinner with you , remember ? ’ |
| 28 | Give me that any day over bedroom music . ’ |
| 29 | Spare me that old shite , for Jesus ’ sake . |
| 30 | Gim me that old style rugby |