Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things ! |
| 2 | Leonard Montague Harrod , in his remarkably anachronistic Library work with children ( 1969 , p.24 ) , saw the good children 's librarian as |
| 3 | On Sept. 27 Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced that as a result of the agreement reached between de Klerk and Mandela , his predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party had withdrawn from constitutional talks . |
| 4 | His highly successful Town planning which in the Pelican Books series cost 6d. and sold a quarter of a million copies , was a technician 's plea for the quality of urban townscape as a worthy setting for community . |
| 5 | Despite his much publicised jogging regime , Clinton is clearly overweight , a problem caused by his addiction to junk food which saw him balloon by 25lbs this year . |
| 6 | The war curtailed his career and helps explain his somewhat modest career record of 5595 runs and 22 wickets with his occasional medium-pacers . |
| 7 | President Fernando Collor de Mello completed a major Cabinet reshuffle on April 13 , thereby removing from his largely National Reconstruction Party ( PRN ) government several ministers accused of involvement in corruption scandals . |
| 8 | It was not , he said as he ushered Rain into his richly furnished sitting room on Wednesday afternoon , as though he had done anything with which to reproach himself , the fault lay entirely with the MacQuillan people . |
| 9 | His massively powerful Cobra replica accelerates to 60mph in 1.97 seconds and develops 600bhp . |
| 10 | The sheer intimacy forces Black to relent on his normally remote stage presence and let us songs shed some of their comic macabre cool in these affably beery surroundings . |
| 11 | The sheer intimacy forces Black to relent on his normally remote stage presence and let us songs shed some of their comic macabre cool in these affably beery surroundings . |
| 12 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 13 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 14 | He once gave a beggar his nearly new velvet suit — doubtless glad of the chance to get rid of it . |
| 15 | It the new term , and Marc Lepine , twenty-five years old , scruffy , fairly lean , with a young ungainly beard on his slightly spotty baby face , leaves the bus at the junction of Queen Mary and Côte-des-Neiges . |
| 16 | Cranston sniffed loudly and looked longingly at his now empty wine goblet . |
| 17 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 18 | They all came as a result of his marvellously intuitive support play , the best stemming from a masterly dummy by his scrum-half partner , Andy Gregory , in only the second minute . |
| 19 | Gerald Ratner , who earned £615,000 a year when chairman of his then thriving family firm , was not available for comment yesterday . |
| 20 | In 1906 he made over Cliveden to his newly married elder son , and bought Hever Castle in Kent , which he reconstructed and where he housed his collection of pictures and artefacts . |
| 21 | Inevitably , however , the biggest crowd pleaser was the recent ‘ Everything I Do ’ , reflecting the sad , gentle counterpoint to his otherwise aggressive guitar image . |
| 22 | He was also ordered to pay £25 costs and received six penalty points on his previously clean driving licence . |
| 23 | Limping behind McQueen , he has resurrected Ratso from Midnight Cowboy , and the performance also looks ahead to his mentally handicapped Rain Man character . |
| 24 | His superbly detailed pencil drawing ( below ) of a loving mother elephant protecting her baby was an obvious choice , as it symbolised the protective spirit we all feel towards these magnificent creatures . |
| 25 | PS : If anyone thinks that I may be overstating the Hart boy 's case then listen to his blindingly good solo album , ‘ Intolerance ’ . |
| 26 | And I think the , the erm , the jobs which are elected are the Chair Person and , do we still have a Vice Chair Person ? are you still Vice Chair Person ? |
| 27 | You certainly wasted studio time and resources , so one was actively discouraged . |
| 28 | ‘ And I just happen to have her long sky-blue evening skirt , that needed the seam stitched . |
| 29 | She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley , scratches her bottom through the cambric , and yawns . |
| 30 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |