Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC reissue contained very poor transfers , but I 'm delighted to say that thanks to good engineering work by David Lennick on Music and Arts 's new disc we can now enjoy these 1935 performances in acceptable sound . |
| 2 | The famous high temper which no one , not even her formidable papa , knew how to cope with , once she was on fire , was being controlled by a man whose outward-seeming was mild and pleasant , although beneath Dr Neil 's bland exterior she was beginning to sense a will as strong and resolute as her own . |
| 3 | Having cre , credit by David 's withering look I always say you have to be terrified ! |
| 4 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 6 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 7 | If , under Hugh MacLennan , he was able to form his judgment and turn his phrases under the eye of a skilful novelist , in Louis Dudek 's adroit hands he was able to fashion and test his poetic acumen to the full ; both were to be of absorbing interest to him . |
| 8 | Oh so Ann 's awful idea she 's still having him on he 's such a great giggle . |
| 9 | Paul John and er Now I Know What Made Otis Blue it 's radio Nottingham Nottinghamshire 's favourite station it 's eighteen minutes now to two o'clock . |
| 10 | By the time we reached the volcano 's outer lip it was deafeningly noisy . |
| 11 | Reflecting on Down 's immediate future he adds : ‘ You have to remember that the championship is only eight or nine weeks away so the more competitive football we get the better . |
| 12 | In the course of one of Richard 's retaliatory raids he captured an important man , Peter Seillan , a member of the family which governed the city of Toulouse on the Count 's behalf and one of his closest advisers . |
| 13 | The weather was bitterly cold , and because there was no heating in Dana 's little room he used to spend all day , and nearly every night , in my warm apartment . |
| 14 | Given Nichols 's theatrical background it is not surprising that some of the best things in the film came out of improvisation . |
| 15 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 16 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 17 | But until Deane 's late winner it seemed City were on their way to a precious point after manager Brian Horton made an inspired interval substitution . |
| 18 | Despite the British Council 's regional offices it is essentially London-based and urban-orientated . |
| 19 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 20 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 21 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 22 | ‘ Now you 've lost your job through your ex-boss 's devious manipulations I suppose you decided to try to move in permanently on me ! |
| 23 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 24 | At Count Begouen 's Pyrenean château she saw the cave art nearby and met the Abbé Breuil . |
| 25 | As she mingled with the guests at the Queen 's Scottish home she realized that she was no longer treated as a person but as a position , no longer a flesh and blood human being with thoughts and feelings but a symbol where the very title ‘ Her Royal Highness , the Princess of Wales ’ distanced her not only from the wider public but from those within the intimate royal circle . |
| 26 | As a judge for the South-east England final of Sainsbury 's Future Cooks I was impressed by the high standard of the entrants , two of whom were only ten years old . |
| 27 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 28 | In Russia 's stratified society they lacked social and economic leverage of any kind ; their inflammatory proclamations and resort to violence and terrorism alienated even the progressive wing of educated society . |
| 29 | He pointed out that peasant opposition to government did exist , but on account of Russia 's huge distances it expressed itself more by evasion than through open fighting . |
| 30 | As Eugene Roosens says in Creating Ethnicity , the book which , with Frederik Barth 's Ethnic Groups I have found particularly helpful : ‘ After all , nobody can change ‘ the past ’ from which one descends , and nobody can undo who one is ’ . |