Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have .
2 Again , the more the merrier … we are leaving ourselves open to a few ‘ active ’ neutrals who will try and stir things up … but its always easy for gav to exclude any twats … if it gets a bit too fruity of course … nothing wrong with a bit of friendly banter and discussion .
3 By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more .
4 Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened .
5 ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach .
6 Might his successor be ‘ brave ’ because he was laying himself open to the same fate … ?
7 In a small club in Hamilton , Ontario , he jammed with them onstage for a few nights .
8 ‘ You can live quite cheaply in Miami , so once you 're out there on one job , you can contact other UK clients and get them to send the gear over and keep you busy for a few weeks .
9 Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) .
10 Does this mean therefore that RMI has to be a massive concentrated effort to bring everything on-stream at the same time ?
11 A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time .
12 Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year .
13 He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments .
14 ‘ Now , Irish , you know better than that , ’ he said with a cheeky grin , and left her alone for a few minutes .
15 Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film .
16 She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year .
17 But there is a whole range of other situations where the opposite move is needed , where we need to stress that people can differ from us , for instance over proposals to give all children the same kind of education or to make everybody live in the same kind of house .
18 It took him 14 more laps before he could squeeze alongside Brundle , and run him wheel-to-wheel through the same right-left-right triple turn .
19 Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered .
20 You ca n't and keep them open at the same time .
21 A must for all who know B.C. or may have visited the area and to anyone interested in the many facets of rural life as it was in years gone by ( ISBN 0951596403 , price £5.95 ) .
22 Just take it easy for a few minutes and save your strength for when the police arrive .
23 The close relationship between police chiefs and elected mayors in American cities makes it difficult for the former not to curry favour with what is perceived as the ‘ majority view ’ within his ( sic ) jurisdiction … .
24 Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ .
25 However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner .
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