Example sentences of "[adj] in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see |
| 2 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 3 | Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e. |
| 4 | President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria said that Africa had failed to meet its challenges : " Ever since the majority of our countries became independent in the 1960s we have conducted our lives as if the world owes us a living . " |
| 5 | When steel became available in the 1880s it was used instead of iron . |
| 6 | Henry of Huntingdon 's tale of fighting against the Slavs ( see above ) might also be relevant , and if Cnut did spend part of 1022 in the Baltic it would explain why the Chronicle C text records his return from Denmark in 1023 without , otherwise , having said that he had gone there . |
| 7 | Er not very long because he er he started a business and er and he did n't do ever so well cos times were bad in the twenties you know as you know . |