Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my flatmate Cherry drinks like a fish , but then , so do I. |
| 2 | The belief , sincerely held by many of my working class contemporaries , that teaching was a much better job than many of the others which were open to them , no longer applies . |
| 3 | As my usual walking activities are limited to a little fell walking in the Lakes or North Wales , with friends who usually do the navigating , the TMB was certainly ambitious . |
| 4 | However in rural Wales and Shropshire , my usual hunting grounds , the norm is the occasional road scheme , the odd building , maybe a breach in an embankment , and certainly some overgrown areas , but otherwise an intact railway trackbed . |
| 5 | My usual snack foods are : … |
| 6 | I HAD time to spare one morning and decided to avoid my usual traffic fumes and noise-polluted route into town . |
| 7 | Stung by My Bloody Valentine comparisons and having fallen out with Creation Records , 1992 picked up with the glorious ‘ Secondhand Clothes ’ EP and patronage by Too Pure ( where they remain ) . |
| 8 | My broad bean plants are covered in little brown spots on the leaves . |
| 9 | ‘ What the hell are you up to , ’ he shouts at me , ‘ interfering with my private phone calls ’ He was a white as a sheet . ’ |
| 10 | I meet my European Community colleagues often . |
| 11 | The bride is one of my greatest school friends . |
| 12 | Today I attended the Scotland/Wales rugby international at Murrayfield with several of my under-15 team mates from Preston Lodge High School , East Lothian . |
| 13 | My proper diploma exams . |
| 14 | Whenever I wore my brown leather shoes , people would stop me and say , with genuine amazement , ‘ Hey , what are those things you 've got on your feet ? ’ |
| 15 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
| 16 | A lot of my old school friends are doing that now and they are just hanging loose without a care in the world , it sounds great . |
| 17 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
| 18 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 19 | As soon as it 's light , my old school chums Finlayson , Richards and Callaghan will come with me and patrol the area Roeux-Riencourt . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell you what , I 'll ring around some of my old university friends if you like and see if they know of anywhere . |
| 21 | As one of my old art lecturers used to say ‘ Work through the point of despair and it will come out right ’ . |
| 22 | When I knew we were going to talk , I dug out some of my old history books . |
| 23 | I went back to my old eating habits and slowly put on more weight . |
| 24 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 25 | My non-sexist breakfast foods , |
| 26 | Mr Murrell said : ‘ I had been planning to switch a lot of my British equity holdings in unit linked endowment policies and unit linked pension plans into either cash or deposit funds or with profit funds . |
| 27 | I should like to pay just a small tribute to three of my youngest class members . |
| 28 | ‘ Since then I 've had another report from one of my top security agents . ’ |
| 29 | One of my longest standing friends commented to me on Thursday evening how I had started to laugh again and was much more relaxed rather than — and I quote — ‘ the grey ghastly sight you have looked for weeks ’ — ( shades , if you recall of 's amazing remarks after my April visit when forced to detour to document sign — and , incidentally on that score , we have hit yet another legal obstacle , so heaven knows when that will all get sorted out ) . |
| 30 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |