Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 2 | I 'd be very interested to hear what the next rumour is … but I do n't really have anything to say . |
| 3 | It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 5 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 6 | I wan na try it with one of these three , twenty three hour systems , supposed to work it the last |
| 7 | Yesterday the 86-year-old writer of more than 80 books said from her home in Jesmond , Newcastle : ‘ I am amazed and humbled that the Queen has seen fit to give me a second honour . ’ |
| 8 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 9 | Ace Barton , world champion and on present form looking likely to make it a second time . |
| 10 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 11 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 12 | I sat back and treated myself to a cigarette , determined to make it the first and last of the day . |
| 13 | Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home . |
| 14 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |