Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] in [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , what would your one shining summer be like without a few interesting male specimens in it ? ’ |
| 2 | And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain : |
| 3 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 4 | There is a wide hole in the hill , with little old rusty sheds in it , and a fence in front of it . |
| 5 | ‘ It had little sensible inexpensive things in it — a folding coat-hanger and something to put on one 's face … . |
| 6 | In contrast , the more experiences and activities are such that we find it hard to make sense of them existing or occurring in isolation , the more difficult it will be , on Moore 's principles , to find anything of real inherent value in them . |
| 7 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 8 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 9 | ‘ All I know is the bastard things are good enough not to need much repair and there 's no real second-hand market in them . |
| 10 | So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them . |
| 11 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
| 12 | nasty little vicious streak in you . |
| 13 | ‘ Luckily he did n't stay around long enough for you to inadvertently put your pretty little foot in it . ’ |
| 14 | ones in having side plates with large oval holes in them , which gave quite a distinctive appearance . |
| 15 | So it was transparent , with these little black circles in it that seemed to jump backwards and forwards at you . |
| 16 | We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary . |
| 17 | The editor added that a girl had remarked to him that ‘ she thought that many of the supposed erotic pictures in It degraded the female ’ . |
| 18 | The earl of Derby has a large modern mansion in it . |
| 19 | During the meetings , described by the ITAR-TASS news agency as " extremely positive " , both sides agreed to " continue discussing the GDS with other states , in order to lay the foundations for extensive international participation in it " . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a damn great hole in it . ’ |
| 21 | Black Wry rose in him against this creature , this monstrous being who was turning Ireland into black barrenness ; above the mask his eyes glinted and he wanted to spring on the Robemaker and tear his throat from his body . |
| 22 | Unused fireplaces should be blocked off , but the material used must have a number of good sized holes in it for ventilation . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry , but I get this horrible feeling in my stomach , as though there 's a great big knot in it . |
| 24 | No Norman king in England recruited his knights entirely by feudal service ; his army always had a substantial mercenary element in it . |
| 25 | I should think so when there are eight fascinating female forms in it , turning , twisting , pirouetting and corkscrewing about the stage at any one time . |
| 26 | Could be ages to grow like that , now it 's grown a real good hedge , in fact no it ai n't a good real hedge it 's got massive great gaping holes in it |
| 27 | That 's the great dead thing in him . |
| 28 | She was still wearing the clinging black dress and seemed to have passed a stressful evening , to judge by the dark smudges beneath her eyes and the odd loose strand in her previously immaculate hair . |
| 29 | It is not difficult to see from Salmon 's publications why more orthodox contemporaries saw atheistical or extreme heretical ideas in them , although his four pamphlets , which were read widely in radical religious circles , were really a highly personal attempt to articulate a nearly inexpressible sense of union with the divine . |
| 30 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |