Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 2 | He grinned at nothing or a secret joke . |
| 3 | ‘ Millet has a gospel , and I ask you , is n't there a difference between a drawing of his and a nice sermon ? ’ |
| 4 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 5 | It was unclear last night who was to blame for the deluge — the 28-year-old prince himself or a forgetful aide . |
| 6 | It is abundantly clear that there was no enthusiasm amongst the English nobility for a renewal of war , and the triumphant campaign that now ensued was prepared by the king himself and a small group of his military supporters , notably Henry Percy of Alnwick and William de Clinton . |
| 7 | It was a linchpin of Lewis 's theism that thought itself was a metaphysical act ; his exploration of this theme in his book Miracles and the subsequent heated debate between himself and a fellow-Christian philosopher , Elizabeth Anscombe , provided one of the great academic sideshows in the Oxford of the late 1940s . |
| 8 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 9 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 10 | Last year , it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him . |
| 11 | Moses had made the arduous climb to the top of the mountain , but on the summit he did not experience God himself but a thick cloud of unknowing . ’ |
| 12 | I remembered what Agrippa had told me and a faint suspicion stirred . |
| 13 | I was out of my depth : she was a lot heavier than me and a bloody sight more determined . |
| 14 | It 's a great pleasure to me and a certain indication of satisfaction that many of them are regulars . |
| 15 | Tim was fascinated at seeing overturned engines on the side of the line , and you girls were a little anxious as you saw me and a nice Salvation Army wife tear down the track when the train stopped to get water from the engine ! |
| 16 | ‘ She 's as active as you or me and a damn sight tougher . |
| 17 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
| 18 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
| 19 | It 's a great adventure for me and a big challenge . |
| 20 | The door opened behind them and a junior officer came in . |
| 21 | The nation 's youngsters took to them and a successful soap was born . |
| 22 | There was a pair of cream jodhpurs and boots to go with them and a proper crash-helmet like jockeys used . |
| 23 | All the subjects ( young children ) were trained with three ‘ nonsense ’ figures as the stimuli , learning to apply one verbal label to two of them and a different label to the third . |
| 24 | There is some suggestion that psychic communication can flow more easily along strata than across them and a true link can thus be formed through the Earth between those sites on similar strata . |
| 25 | It sounded absurdly false to her , as though they were playing a rather bald comedy for the benefit of the elderly lady , who was dividing her benign attention between them and a quivering travel film . |
| 26 | Nor , as these raiders paddled towards an enemy shore , was there more than a canvas skin on its wooden frame between them and a hostile reception . |
| 27 | HOMOSEXUAL patients were victimised as public announcements mocked them and a gays-only toilet was set up . |
| 28 | My nephew , Martin , he 's one of them and a lovely boy . |
| 29 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 30 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |