Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 2 | If the beach is crowded with swimmers , sail well clear of them since a board travelling even at low speed could do severe damage to someone 's head . |
| 3 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 4 | Nothing is more uncomfortable to us than a social hiatus , a silence hanging heavily between people in which no one can think of anything to say . |
| 5 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 6 | Their relationship was an oddly comfortable one , with nothing more demonstrative about it than a swift goodnight kiss , or hands joined on a walk in the beautiful countryside around Chastlecombe . |
| 7 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 8 | as far as I 'm concerned Arthur , John 's more important to me than a bloody pair of glasses |
| 9 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |
| 10 | A person with IBS who has ignored the symptoms for years may become acutely aware of them when a close relative succumbs to cancer . |
| 11 | From the sound of it , she 's more like a relative to you than a servant . ’ |