Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 2 | That bloody awful feller she 's with . |
| 3 | Therese clutched it , moved closer , stared bravely up into his face and faltered at the total contemptuous sneering disdain she saw there . |
| 4 | Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved : a 74-year-old retired civil servant' he is serving a three-year sentence for ‘ criticizing the president . ’ |
| 5 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 6 | ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’ |
| 7 | We may identify the person from external physical cues : the woman in the corner , the man with a beard , the student who has had his hair dyed , the child in the pink dress or , more or less flatteringly , the tall distinguished looking man I the man with a big nose and stringy hair . |
| 8 | ‘ And when I do , my lady , we 'll get back to that interesting little conversation we were having . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That distinguished old gent I 've noticed in your company is the author of ‘ Jottings ’ ? ’ |
| 10 | " This tall fair man I spotted last night " |
| 11 | Martinque richly deserves its nickname of ‘ island of flowers ’ and against the background of this lush tropical island I tried my hand at water-skiing for the first time . |
| 12 | Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare 's plays to include Anglo-Saxon characters ; and by some odd stylistic response it too is full of this ancient ( but still popular ) rhetorical device . |
| 13 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |
| 14 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |
| 15 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 16 | Broad head , broad face , fair complexion , blonde hair , blueish-grey eyes and this funny concave nose I have . ’ |
| 17 | And the driver wanted to get even more friendly with some exciting young women they 'd picked up earlier . |
| 18 | as if this was some peculiar new word he 'd not heard before . |
| 19 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 20 | I 've got some amazing new music I 'd like you to hear . |
| 21 | In this simple illustrative case we avoid decimals . |
| 22 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 23 | I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman . |
| 24 | But when we stopped in Bahrain out in Hong Kong , well when we got into Hong Kong , you get this little tiny cup it 's about an eighth of the size of that bloody thing , and it 's thick and it 's horrible , their coffee . |
| 25 | You do n't know you might end up with this this little old chap you 're with . |
| 26 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 27 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 28 | Knight 's Cross with Oak Leaves , a brilliant soldier , and yet he ruined his career , risked failure , everything , for the sake of some little Jewish bitch he tried to help in Warsaw . |
| 29 | As we walked around this pretty little island we were charmed by the friendliness of the local people . |
| 30 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |