Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 2 | The negative reactions have the opposite aim : ‘ that nothing of the forgotten traumas shall be remembered and nothing repeated ’ . |
| 3 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 4 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 5 | 5.18.2 Nothing in the preceding clause shall entitle the Tenant to withhold or delay any payment of the rents or any other sum due under this Lease after the date upon which they fall due or in any way prejudice affect or derogate from the rights of the Landlord in relation to such non-payment including ( but without prejudice to the generality of the above ) under the proviso for re-entry contained in this Lease The period of grace before interest bites will be a matter of negotiation between the landlord and the tenant . |
| 6 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 7 | What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness . |
| 8 | There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw ; a conspicuous spine-like one on the oral plate and a smaller scale-like one on the adoral plate which may be missing in some specimens ( see Madsen , 1970 : 179–181 for a discussion of this character ) . |
| 9 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 10 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 11 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 12 | In Dusun , for example , two different sequence particles are used in the verb phrases — one in the first clause an a different one in the second clause . |
| 13 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 14 | Ward has modified the aircraft 's firewall extensively , and has added T-28 brakes and other modifications such as extra wing spars , which will make this one of the finest Bearcats flying . |
| 15 | The women regard this one of the great triumphs of COPPES , ad previously the food was very low nutritive value and unhygienically prepared , the source of continuous gastro-enteritic disorders . |
| 16 | Was this one of the first disco records ? |
| 17 | I think this one of the last of them now . |
| 18 | You can knock this one into a cocked hat Maggie . |
| 19 | Well on that note we 'll have to draw this one to a close , but I think the debate will run quite a bit . |
| 20 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
| 21 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 22 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 23 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 24 | If you drop it into this one with the clean water in . |
| 25 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 26 | Since it scans perfectly and rhymes almost , try this one from the ubiquitous Basil Noble on Labour 's defendant in East Cleveland : A would-be MP called Kumar , Went calling in very good humour , As he smiled through Langbaurgh , Both at home and afar , He never committed a bloomer . |
| 27 | Alright , I , I borrowed this one from the Senior Common Room . |
| 28 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 29 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 30 | The absurdest dreams are probably some of the most difficult to remember , but some are great fun , like this one by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice . |