Example sentences of "[adj] pieces of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them |
| 2 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 3 | It is that same voyage of discovery that the organisers of The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition are hoping the public will experience through the 100 pieces of work they have put on show . |
| 4 | forms on slightly bigger pieces of paper I think . |
| 5 | " I wondered whether , now you 've done a lot of redecorating , you had any little pieces of furniture you wanted to sell . |
| 6 | Although I must say I I mean , one of the most fascinating pieces of politics I was ever involved in , was when I had to defend Mrs Thatcher over the Belgrano incident . |
| 7 | long , long plain pieces of area you could |
| 8 | One of the first pieces of music he bought then was Stravinsky 's Firebird . |
| 9 | The chair , a bed and a small table were the only pieces of furniture she had in her hut . |
| 10 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 11 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 12 | The policy of restraint upon development declared by county and district councils in their local plans was one of the best pieces of news he was able to report to the meeting . |
| 13 | He thanked the fat Nubian for her help — it had indeed been well worth the two pieces of silver she had demanded — and left . |
| 14 | Er well before we proceed er there 's two pieces of information I 'd like to give you |
| 15 | Before she could follow his movements he was by the coffee-table , the long fingers carefully flattening out the creased pieces of paper she had derisively hurled there . |