Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang on a minute — there 's another me in the dream … standing outside in the star-studded night . |
| 2 | I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat . |
| 3 | humiliating you in the presence of your colleagues ; |
| 4 | ‘ Left you in the Empire all by yourself for a couple of hours , I suppose . |
| 5 | By all means let advertisers bring in history to help to sell their wares , but why is it that they so often mangle and corrupt it in the process ? |
| 6 | Tin , tin , tin , tin all his in the store , eaten all the fishes in the poor old master 's |
| 7 | Barbara : They irate you in the lesson , so you ca n't get to work . |
| 8 | His palm was rotating over her breast , filling her with a delicious lassitude , the unfamiliar feeling overwhelming her in the way that it took over her whole body , his touch vibrating through every nerve and firing every pulse . |
| 9 | But like most of his class , he got over that little difficulty by more or less refashioning Him in the guise of an eighteenth-century English gentleman . |
| 10 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 11 | He designed his own pair of boots and test-walked them in the desert . |
| 12 | As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done |