Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She says she is willing to work all her days just to keep a little home of her own ’ , yet she also felt ‘ too old for the work . ’ |
| 2 | As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements . |
| 3 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 4 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 5 | Berbizier 's decision to start the game without a recognised line-out jumper was a controversial one , even if the French scored all their points in a first half when they were dominated in the line-out and nearly lost the game in the second half when the lanky Roumat redressed the balance . |
| 6 | Indeed it would be entertaining to trace all his mistakes ( including his comic theory of tides ) and see how he corrected earlier guesses as he progressed . |
| 7 | The new " philosophical " perspective meant that Nietzsche could feel free to give all his enthusiasms , classical and non-classical , their due public expression . |
| 8 | Suddenly , he was free to devote all his attention to winning his increasingly nasty war with British Airways . |
| 9 | In fact at the risk of sounding patronizingly sexist , I would be prepared to bet that what Manuela really wanted was to get married , settle down and have lots of children . |
| 10 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 11 | You say , ‘ I 'm sure you 'll understand it is impossible to issue all our tickets separately ’ . |
| 12 | It is so easy to demolish all their arguments and pretensions . |
| 13 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 14 | It then makes it easy to save all your inputs into a separate file , when they 're all in one separate input area . |
| 15 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 16 | And mothers are supposed to sink all their hopes ambitions in the one child . |
| 17 | He chose schools because they were usually the centre of the village activities and he hoped that the schoolmaster as well as taking care of the books would be likely to encourage both his pupils and their parents to read them . |
| 18 | ‘ The constant worry all my staff have is of being transferred . ’ |
| 19 | And the North-East did not escape from these tower block communities which were supposed to answer all our housing problems . |
| 20 | So we did it all the hard way then , and also the garden you see , we 're supposed to grow all our vegetables in the garden , that was outside the cottage , then there was the hedge and the field , and there was a gap down there . |
| 21 | Therefore , he is likely to nominate those whose views seem most in line with his own , although there is no way a president can guarantee the direction of a justice 's decision and it is estimated that the President 's choices have backfired in a quarter of appointments . |
| 22 | Despite what one or two people may have told you , it is very unusual to recoup all your expenditure by reaping a vast profit when you come to sell . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought these wonderful new tablets were supposed to solve all your troubles ? ’ |
| 24 | In fact since my sister is likely to share half my genes my behaviour is probably only one-half less fit than if I had behaved totally selfishly . |
| 25 | Do n't expect to make a speculative fortune with old jewellery , but it is fun to collect and should hold its price , whereas you 'll be lucky to get half your money back on anything bought in a shop . |
| 26 | A dealer was supposed to ring all his clients and ask them questions as to age , tax position , investment objectives , etc . |
| 27 | This typically Horatian conundrum begets English readings that agree slightly to disagree : " Yet the moons are quick to make good their losses in the sky " ( a school textbook , Allcroft and Hayes , n.d . ) ; |
| 28 | I had been accustomed to comfort all my life . |
| 29 | Er sorry getting all my digits in the wrong place . |
| 30 | A cheery old Berber made half his house ours at Tagmout . |