Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the most professional boat owner I 've ever worked for . ’ |
| 2 | Sir John Dacourt , the ambassador , was squat and florid , with frizzed white hair , light blue eyes , and the most luxuriant curling moustache I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 3 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 4 | Invest , if you have enough money , in a telephone logging device ( they start at around £30 ) , which will tell you how long and how much each phone call you make actually costs . |
| 5 | Their bosses are often bright but similarly inexperienced 29-year-old vice presidents with wardrobes from Brooks Brothers and so little credit training they would have trouble with a simple retail installment loan . |
| 6 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 7 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 8 | At five o'clock that Thursday evening she left her office , noticed sourly that her ‘ boyfriend 's ’ Jaguar was in the car park , and drove off to view a flat that was within her means . |
| 9 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 10 | And he had swallowed so much sea water he wanted to vomit . |
| 11 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If there any doubts … do n't take it ’ advises the book , easy to say , less easy to obey for someone in pain or distress , not so easy w hen it is considered that even too much coffee , cola drink or chocolate will register a positive result . |
| 13 | However , it is hoped that by bringing in additional path material it will be possible to reopen it by Easter , with access being limited to certain ‘ clean ’ areas . |
| 14 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 15 | At 8.00p.m. one June night we laid a carpet of rice , hemp and casters . |
| 16 | If a male mouse has only one t gene it will be a normal , healthy mouse except in one remarkable respect . |
| 17 | And IBM Corp is finally ready to take the wraps off its highly parallel processing system it is developing . |
| 18 | The ferry was the most unprepossessing sea vessel I 've ever seen . |
| 19 | He says , right six months time I 'm totally off the alcohol , he says , what 's gon na get us off the valium ? |
| 20 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 21 | It 's just that interlock stuff I suppose , it 's so sort of |
| 22 | Not some peasant boy she could steal away with the promise of a better life , but a youth sheltered by his wealth , closed to her . |
| 23 | , it 's not English subject area I 'm talking about . |
| 24 | We both know what an outrageously male chauvinist pig you are , Ross — but , in case you have n't guessed , I find it very insulting that you should insinuate that I have somehow slept my way up to my present position ! ’ |
| 25 | Just one comment Chairman I see the |
| 26 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 27 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 28 | Although the racking system is normally open type construction it is possible to clad the perimeter of the racking and its top to form a totally enclosed box within a conventional building . |
| 29 | The important point for our purposes is that until some assumption is made about the generally expected price level we can not rule out any response of the economy to the upward shift in the aggregate demand curve . |
| 30 | Do n't let a successful venture or pleasing gain early this week lull you into complacency . |