Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 32 | Do n't get me wrong on this , this is not in any way , shape or form meant to be a criticism , what we 're trying to do here is to sit down and say that by tomorrow night , can we organise ourselves any better . |
| 33 | And I got them some of that , urgh urgh ! |
| 34 | Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening . |
| 35 | What is more , when you take the proceeds , you receive them FREE OF ALL TAXATION , under current legislation . |
| 36 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 37 | You can get them free from most Needle Exchanges and Family Planning Clinics . |
| 38 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 39 | In the 1988 elections to the National Assembly in Cameroun , the two alternative lists of candidates , under a proportional representation system , were consistently doctored to make them indistinguishable from each other . |
| 40 | It kept them apart , kept them foreign to each other , him unhaveable , her unhad . |
| 41 | The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances . |
| 42 | You feed them half past twelve , whatever it is , twelve o'clock , and then they go home and you come back again at half past four . |
| 43 | If you wan na give them half of that . |
| 44 | Nonetheless , a high proportion of those who live beyond 75 will suffer a degree of frailty , ill-health or disability which makes them dependent on external sources of support for their comfort and well-being . |
| 45 | The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own . |
| 46 | ‘ Then while you are considering what those circumstances may be , you may allow your regard for your duty to sustain you while you fetch me another of these . ’ |
| 47 | give me another for that . |
| 48 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 49 | ‘ O my Lord , ’ he murmured inside his mind as the young chaplain unrolled more and more miracles and spiritual honours of St Kentigern , ‘ make me free of evil thoughts , evil deeds , this wicked life … ’ and the murmurings of his internal prayers gradually absorbed more of his attention so that when Nicholson eventually stopped , he found his listener remote , unaware , it seemed , that the history was over . |
| 50 | This proves them wrong on both counts . |
| 51 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 52 | I wish he would give me some of that , I 'm flipping starved . |
| 53 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 54 | I hope they 're going to save me some of that chip … . |
| 55 | ‘ Right , you save me some of that breakfast , young Carrie , and I 'll go out now and check on things about the farm . ’ |
| 56 | Gim me some of that . |
| 57 | Get me some of those will you |
| 58 | he would n't give me some of these |
| 59 | Well he brought me some without that on it |
| 60 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |