Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a mixture of strange colours and the knitted ties felt scratchy where Gloria knotted them under Dot 's chin . |
| 2 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker . |
| 4 | I was OK till Marie told me she was going away , and now I feel all sad . |
| 5 | ‘ So much , ’ they said , ‘ has gone wrong since Doyle became our executive director . |
| 6 | Yet it was clear after Irene left him that she , too , was badly in need of a container , and finally found one in Young Jolyon . |
| 7 | It 's interesting when humans do something you do n't expect , but I wish he would n't interfere when I 'm trying to eat . |
| 8 | But one thing is quite clear as Jim makes his comeback — those youthful looks have remained intact . |
| 9 | How could someone as good-looking as Miguel do something so lowdown and mean ? |
| 10 | Again , Pound 's admirers will protest ; and they will be right , insofar as Yeats 's account of the Cantos is n't so definitive as Olson takes it to be . |
| 11 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 12 | Hampshire players were staggered when Smith told them that Waqar had said : ‘ I 'm going to ******* kill you , you **** . ’ |
| 13 | You become embarrassed when people compliment you : ‘ Oh it was nothing really ’ . |
| 14 | For he is embarrassed when people overhear him . |
| 15 | The car in question was a little Renault , and Jenna was interested as Marguerite led her to the garage later and opened it up . |
| 16 | ‘ I never want to hear that name again , ’ Sophie broke in , then felt rather foolish as Helen raised her eyebrows . |
| 17 | Then , suddenly , she was free as Leo thrust her away with enough force to slam her back against the window and set it rattling behind her . |
| 18 | ‘ I was shaken rigid when Naylor opened your door to me last night . ’ |
| 19 | Gooch spoke to Fletcher , who has known the couple throughout their marriage , in his hotel room yesterday morning , and the manager said later in a brief written statement : ‘ I was very saddened when Graham told me . |
| 20 | Luke Alderton had been only three years old when Bart dumped his mother for Grace and his first memories were of tears and endless shouting . |
| 21 | I was not very old when Dad told me that if you stood under it for very long , it would attract the coins out of your pocket . |
| 22 | The lighthouse was fourteen years old when JTR sketched it and by 1876 fish oil had been replaced by paraffin fuel . |
| 23 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 24 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 25 | The rather surprising introduction of a moral dimension to this apparently scientific debate does , however , render it ambiguous — an ambiguity which becomes even more manifest when scientists present their ideas to a wider audience . |
| 26 | Cambridge was empty when Coleridge reached it in October . |
| 27 | Anne 's mother seemed asleep so Anne left her and went quickly to meet her friend . |
| 28 | Her family was delighted although Fiona remembers her sister-in-law in America asking anxiously about the kitten James had given her for Christmas . |
| 29 | I know five hundred and sixty was extra cos Stuart gave me two hundred short of a thousand . |
| 30 | It would be so typical if Jenny missed her while she was in the booth . |