Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 2 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 3 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 4 | There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw ; a conspicuous spine-like one on the oral plate and a smaller scale-like one on the adoral plate which may be missing in some specimens ( see Madsen , 1970 : 179–181 for a discussion of this character ) . |
| 5 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 6 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 7 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 8 | In Dusun , for example , two different sequence particles are used in the verb phrases — one in the first clause an a different one in the second clause . |
| 9 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 10 | An honest vote for Labour — or an evasive one for the Liberal Democrats , which will also help Mr Kinnock to Downing Street — signals a return to Britain 's long , tragic , doomed pursuit of a soft option . |
| 11 | top one on the bottom one . |
| 12 | er mine 's the top one it says erm well I 'll , I 'll reme I 'll rem I 'll , yeah , well it just says on it and it 's the , it 's the top one on the left hand side as you 're facing them |
| 13 | Okay so it 's F , it 's the top one of the four . |
| 14 | They sat in thick wickerwork chairs on an open balcony a top one of the older hotels , close to the floodlit shaft of the Washington Monument . |
| 15 | The secret is to hit the edge of the top one with the steel-tipped back edge of your heels and travel all the way down just skimming each stair the same way . |
| 16 | it was a popular one for a talented and local boy . |
| 17 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 18 | Hence the office became almost a non-resident one in the 1280s . |
| 19 | Between the peace settlement of 1814 – 15 and the death of the old monarchical and aristocratic Europe after 1914 there was some growth in the size and a more marked one in the geographical scope of diplomatic services ; but this was slow and largely confined to the major states . |
| 20 | Moving across the Adriatic , you comment that ‘ it has been a bad week for Bosnia 's Muslims and a shaming one for the outside world . ’ |
| 21 | Official starter Ivor Robson seldom makes mistakes but had to admit to an enforced one in the first match when instructed to let Ian Woosnam take the honour with partner Nick Faldo , playing against Curtis Strange in the opening Foursomes . |
| 22 | Purists still demand the long trudge with the Atco cylinder-mower , the old one with the heavy roller and the polished-brass gas tank . |
| 23 | And if you 're determined to make a new life for yourself , Jessamy , it would be much better for you if you did n't end the old one on a sour note . |
| 24 | ‘ The new logo incorporates all that was good about the old one in a smart new design . ’ |
| 25 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 26 | He took her arm , guiding her across the broad landing towards another door . |
| 27 | As to British naval power , the slave trade militated against rather than enhanced it through the high mortality of sailors engaged in it . |
| 28 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 29 | They chose the latter course but they sent to the buyer separate shipping documents in respect of two different lots in the one ship . |
| 30 | Burun uncoiled himself in a single elastic stretch of his torso , and he stood up . |