Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therese clutched it , moved closer , stared bravely up into his face and faltered at the total contemptuous sneering disdain she saw there . |
| 2 | Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved : a 74-year-old retired civil servant' he is serving a three-year sentence for ‘ criticizing the president . ’ |
| 3 | We may identify the person from external physical cues : the woman in the corner , the man with a beard , the student who has had his hair dyed , the child in the pink dress or , more or less flatteringly , the tall distinguished looking man I the man with a big nose and stringy hair . |
| 4 | He was scraping the glue away from a broken Chinese blue-and-white bowl he 'd bought in the Portobello Road , and repaired , two fiendishly excited horsemen chasing a timid little fallow-deer . |
| 5 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 6 | THE EXCITING new astronomical knowledge we have gained over the past decade has come largely from satellites . |
| 7 | yeah , one of the woman at work she 's a right stuck up old silly old bugger she is ! |
| 8 | This means that SuperCalc does more for you than any other similar fast graphing facility I have come across — including those in Windows spreadsheets . |
| 9 | At any rate it 's not like that semi-conscious automatic rhyming stuff he used to spout . ’ |
| 10 | That 's a real nice dead bird you got on your hat . |
| 11 | I 've experienced them , ’ — remembering , with a shudder , a crappy little agency in Clapham where there had lurked a loud gritty third-rate Scottish horror she 'd had the misfortune to run across in her Algox days . |
| 12 | In the absence of geological evidence for extensive post-Hercynian igneous activity it is likely that basin inversion causing uplift is the major controlling factor for the apparent high reflectance values . |
| 13 | In a second National Geographic sponsored expedition they succeeded but did , however , loose a leg in Lava Falls . |
| 14 | Her skin had that smooth all-the-year-round dark tan you sometimes run into in California . |
| 15 | They also have a washing and toilet area indoors ; a far cry from the filthy old outside block they used with no hot water in deepest winter . |
| 16 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 17 | No , that filthy little American soap I did for Hal Screwyouupalotodos . |
| 18 | From the heart of a large flat pebble-shaped stone he has revealed two fishes in brilliant , iridescent blues . |
| 19 | That very quick grey shy look she puts on , like a little lance . |
| 20 | At least , as a naive young chemical engineer he was recruited into a secret US government rocket fuel project in the 1950s . |
| 21 | I have never been able to remove the inevitable bright yellow stain it produces and neither has any other paper conservator that I know . |
| 22 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 23 | One hostile dark eyebrow lifted briefly and a pair of diamond-hard eyes swept quickly over her , seeming to assess in the flicker of an eyelid the stylish dark red outfit she was wearing . |
| 24 | Freezing freezing freezing freezing bloody hell it 's cold . |
| 25 | If you 're stuck for somewhere to take the kids on firework night and you want to know the one that 's nearest to you Action Line have got a great big long list you 've got piles have n't you ? |
| 26 | A great big strapping man he was . |
| 27 | Oh , great big hefty thing it was , it was an art to cut hay , with these big knives . |
| 28 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |
| 29 | Though it had gone now , its mark was everywhere , not least in a great dirty universal tide-line it had painted , seven feet above ground level . |
| 30 | In the current Middle Eastern situation it 's as well to be reminded , for example , that of the world 's 10 largest companies , seven are car or oil companies , and that one-third of the latter 's output is in the form of petrol . |