Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us .
2 It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school .
3 As far as the exceptions Mr Donson is rightly concerned about erm affordable housing .
4 Ma was twisting a handkerchief in her hands , and her nose was as red as the apples Anna had been forbidden to pick in the garden because they were to be kept till Christmas .
5 There were odd jagged seams all over the place , and the pale soft chamois leather had effectively polished dirt off every surface it came into contact with , so that it was now as grimy as the leathers Carolyn 's Dad used at the garage .
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