Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come , ’ he murmured with soft intensity , taking her shaking fingers and guiding her with arrogant lack of consultation up the curving palatial stairway into a large square bedroom . |
| 2 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 3 | The Medau Society has been an active member since we became a national governing body in 1952 — indeed it was a member of the CCPR staff , Kay Evans who had been instrumental in guiding us towards national recognition . |
| 4 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 5 | NORTHERN Electric fixed it for cerebral palsy sufferer Glen McQuilling to take a flight in its overhead-line patrol helicopter . |
| 6 | in the way of , but she 's just nervous it for some reason . |
| 7 | They 're more or less accusing us of some kind of fraud . ’ |
| 8 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 9 | It more or less incapacitated me from any activity . |
| 10 | I 've been putting it out just as he 's walked in , I said I 'm getting good me at this tea . |
| 11 | Ian has had this experience in reality and is all it with some explanation . |
| 12 | And they grow the bananas , export them , and wholesale them in this country . |
| 13 | Many descriptions in the novel begin with an item which is only mildly deviant , or a dead metaphor , and then reinvest it with metaphorical value , as in this example : " the slope led up to the gap and the mountain rose before them . |
| 14 | They thought their money was safe , but it 's alleged that How used it for risky property deals which led to him losing everything . |
| 15 | Is that it in this room , more or less ? |
| 16 | She looked again at the picture : really , Hilda was quite a pretty woman in her way , if your tastes inclined you to that sort of good looks . |
| 17 | His brief relationship with a page three girl Julie Desmond hit the skids when the press revealed that the bold Frank was two-timing her for another model , Anita Blue . |
| 18 | ‘ Q. What meanest thou by this word Sacrament ? ’ |