Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first multi-cultural CPRW meeting I have been to — most refreshing ! |
| 2 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 3 | So I stayed in and felt shivery although after you get used to being out of hospital you do feel better for breathing real air — without all that disinfectant stuff I mean . |
| 4 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 5 | For a long time it looked like the 500 GP career he started just last year would be very short . |
| 6 | The most enduring memorial to the younger Despenser 's wealth is the extensive building work he undertook at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan , where he rebuilt the hall and the private chambers and the western gatehouse of the middle ward . |
| 7 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 8 | Oh Lemmings and that computer game I wanted . |
| 9 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 10 | The is it eleven pound load I think it is ? |
| 11 | If I 'd have thought about it , that wedding cake she give me |
| 12 | Give us that cracker thing I put this , where 's this , where your dad put the screws ? |
| 13 | I 'm recording you on that tape machine I think . |
| 14 | He 's the most professional boat owner I 've ever worked for . ’ |
| 15 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 16 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 17 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 18 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 20 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 21 | It 's a bit like , it 's the same sort of idea as that sleeping bag you 've got , you know , little short dashes of paint |
| 22 | I 've tried that chewing gum you get but it still did n't stop me . |
| 23 | I drank nothing at lunch , despite the horrendous Malvinas Surprise I ordered ( a triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks ) . |
| 24 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 25 | Bono is derived from some gang name he acquired during a recent delinquent youth . |
| 26 | In another case example they compare the performance of personal and social care skills by a female AD sufferer , who communicated by gesture , at home and in a day centre . |
| 27 | All star variety show I 've got just two tickets . |
| 28 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 29 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 30 | COMMUTERS who staged a sit-in on a British Rail train they claim is cancelled frequently were ejected by police , and their leader arrested , at a station last night . |