Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saves his monthly salary slips , and his bank statements and cheque stubs , and reads through them all each time he adds another item , entranced by the complex passage of money through his hands . |
| 2 | Now , there 's no time to go through them all this morning . |
| 3 | Yeah but what they 've what they 've done but what one wants to do is not is not bad for them one little bit . |
| 4 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 5 | Nine o'clock on the late show babysitting for me all this week , Adrian and then one o'clock till six o'clock during the early hours of Thursday the fifteenth of July , to keep you company , it 's Mark . |
| 6 | For me this generous use of natural reverberation acts as a tonic after so many recordings where the acoustics seem too dry or contrived . |
| 7 | You looked after her all that time and you 're still looking after her . ’ |
| 8 | Each of them combined eastern ritual with western realism . |
| 9 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 10 | Yeah , that that would be one of them that little flower up there . |
| 11 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 12 | Not that an animal picture on the wall meant anything to either of them that particular evening . |
| 13 | Thus a type description might present a comprehensive array of structures and give each of them equal descriptive weight , but a token description might well reveal that some of these were of rare occurrence , or restricted to a realization through a limited range of lexical items , almost exclusively confined to certain contexts , or associated with certain meanings . |
| 14 | The Ecological Bricks Initiative will create new parks in Finland , Poland , Germany , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Austria , Hungary , Albania and Bulgaria on unspoilt natural habits , many of them former military training grounds , now threatened by development . |
| 15 | So I nipped in and bought one of them little tiny bag , I 've never had tiny bag before . |
| 16 | In all of them some private violence pulled against prescribed behaviour . |
| 17 | So 156 MPs had some identifiable business interest , a little over half of the party , but for most of them some other interest seemed to predominate . |
| 18 | The guy said it did n't do either of them any serious damage , but they had really bad headaches afterwards . |
| 19 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 20 | splinters of glass out of her long grey hair . |
| 21 | On this basis she was detained but reportedly released , temporarily , to take care of her one year-old daughter . |
| 22 | She rescued the rifle from the grip of her one remaining hand and grasped it firmly . |
| 23 | She could see the thunderheads building all along the edges of her one perfect summer , and she shivered apprehensively . |
| 24 | All of a sudden , the morning gathering at Mrs Tiverton 's had lost a little of its terror , for just at this instant it seemed less threatening than Mr Aycliffe 's serious face , demanding of her this fatal choice . |
| 25 | And indeed , where was Brother Jerome , and why had no word been heard from him and nothing seen of him all this time ? |
| 26 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 27 | I get most of mine Naff Naff stuff from there . |
| 28 | Sharing hell can make the recognition of it that little bit more bearable , but it is still hell , and the loneliness and despair , the darkness and confusion , are never far from the surface . |
| 29 | It had the feel of it this little garden you know , the doors , the paintwork everything about it it gave you that feel . |
| 30 | 'If my writings are to last , ’ he said in 1835 , ' … they will please tor the single cause , ‘ That we have all of us one human heart ’ . ’ |