Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it expects them to lose a staggering twenty million pounds in the first year . |
| 2 | You 've caused me to lose a whole valuable day 's work . |
| 3 | Although the spinal patients had no specific rectal sensation during rectal distension , almost half of them experienced a dull pelvic sensation at maximum distension . |
| 4 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 5 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 6 | Except for Freud , whose impersonal style does not reveal him , all of them flaunt a pronounced sado-masochistic sensibility . |
| 7 | HOW CAN I MAKE A TAN LAST LONGER ? |
| 8 | I asked a blond-haired little boy . |
| 9 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 10 | I made a thirty four thousand pound profit at the end of March , and then Trevor gave me a bill for fifty six thousand |
| 11 | I made a tiny human skeleton with the bones of the dead fish and distributed a little ketchup about it to make it more realistic . |
| 12 | er because I said I , I only phone Marion once a month and phone mum probably about once a fortnight , I do n't like to leave it any longer and erm and I said I know I made a few extra calls over Christmas , but I said I really do n't know . |
| 13 | ‘ Rain , after I rang you this morning I made a few more enquiries and then went and told Barbara she was to come with me . ’ |
| 14 | Oh indeed , I mean a great many of them we have no responsibility at all for , we merely give advice when requested . |
| 15 | The first fella was ver no there 's , there 's some women on the course w er we will see who are actually presenting the course , I mean a good fifty percent of the course is |
| 16 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 17 | I lack a good many things , but money ai n't one of 'em . |
| 18 | And , later that evening , I met a black British journalist who agrees . |
| 19 | During one of the hold-ups in play in the Centenary Test at Lord 's in 1980 , I met a splendid young man ( then aged about 14 ) from Yorkshire , who showed me his foolscap-size autograph book , beautifully kept , with separate pages for each country and county , adorned with photographs , magazine pictures , statistics and coloured inks . |
| 20 | Back at the anchor vantage point , I met a dreamy-eyed tramp-like man of about fifty . |
| 21 | In the garden I met a pale young gentleman with fair hair . |
| 22 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 23 | Never before have I heard a would-be Prime Minister show such a crass insensitivity as to what can and can not be done , with propriety , in this particular free society . |
| 24 | I passed a great big pile of wood in a ditch yesterday afternoon |
| 25 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 26 | As I walked through the rubble in the direction of the road leading back to Amfreville and Brigade H.Q I passed a few slit trenches manned by No. 4 Commando . |
| 27 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 28 | I rode a half-empty ground-skim back to spaceport . |
| 29 | There , walking down the middle of the shed in the gloom , I espied a dark blue-clad figure wearing what appeared to be what Dad used to call a ‘ steamraiser , , a shiny topped peaked cap . |
| 30 | Moreover when there were fights , observed the chairman of the Birmingham City Supporters ' Club , ‘ it was punch-ups among men in those days … when I was a lad , if I stepped out of line I got a bloody good hiding from my Dad ’ . |