Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 2 | If you pick up something like a Super 400 you play things like Fade To Black rather than Heavy Fuel . |
| 3 | Holding , and when he finally bowled Amiss for a splendid 203 it was clear that the follow-on would not be avoided . |
| 4 | With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others . |
| 5 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a chance in a million that we found each other but we have n't looked back since . |
| 7 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 8 | … When it comes to [ discovering ] pollution it 's one in a thousand that you 'll [ do so ] by sampling — it 's in an officer 's technique … ‘ |
| 9 | I tell myself it 's a chance in a hundred that he 'll keep his word . |
| 10 | So she said well I 'll go out then and she 's lives in a massive great she 'll say to come back , so and stuck there , well poor old Margaret . |
| 11 | In a 1968 editorial it notes the " present muddled , unsatisfactory situation " within English , and recommends that the discipline finally abandon its claim to provide " morally nutritive properties " and simply accept that literature is worth studying for " its own sake " . |
| 12 | And if you spoke English to a fellow Orcadian you were chanting . |
| 13 | But in music and poetry which aims at a higher aesthetic we have to avoid the trite effect which can result when words and music are in the same metre and move in identical rhythms . |