Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Have n't you found me rather a good audience ? ’
2 She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that .
3 ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’
4 It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction .
5 British socialism , so alien to the American way of life , was to them only a short step away from communism , which they feared would engulf the whole of Europe .
6 Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week .
7 When describing what health means to them personally a different set of explanatory frameworks appear to be invoked ( Table 6.2 ) .
8 ‘ You would have seen them together a fair bit and it 's just so sad this should happen while they were on holiday . ’
9 ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death .
10 In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down ,
11 Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ?
12 ‘ Ancient person , ’ [ began Gooseneck ] , ‘ for whom I All the flattering youth defy , Long be it ere thou grow old , Aching , shaking , crazy , cold ; But still continue as thou art , Ancient person of my heart .
13 Is this normal or am I just a good driver ?
14 Er , I just the main point .
15 I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all !
16 Am I even a little bit — beautiful , or are you just saying it to make me open up ? ’
17 Am I simply the latest victim in a long line ? ’
18 as questions lead to shouting and then crawling back to his Then a little bit about language and an experiment that they did .
19 I am a lucky woman . ’
20 The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture .
21 The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit .
22 Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with .
23 You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing .
24 Now whether it means that in the short term they all land on your desk , and you give them just a superficial examination I do n't know .
25 ‘ I am genuinely delighted we were able to repay them just a little bit .
26 As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light .
27 ‘ One day you are going to tell me just a little bit more of this experience of yours . ’
28 Could you give me just a little clarification on that
29 His absolute conviction at that time , reinforced by an extraordinary personal charm and magnetism gave me just the right insight and guidance that I needed .
30 The big guy hit me just the one time .
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