Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape . |
| 2 | I was glad the well had been Christianized , as Michael Quirke himself could scarcely go on his knees and pray to the rascally old gods he so admired . |
| 3 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 4 | In point of fact , when radical theorists invoke ‘ politics ’ they mean Marxist politics , in the paradoxically timeless fashion I have just referred to . |
| 5 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 6 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 7 | Yet the frustratingly small amount we are told about the marriage emerges in the form of Paulina 's anguished revelations rather than as the outcome of discussion and challenge . |
| 8 | Greece remains the remarkably rewarding market it has always been , but here again the growth is in the number of serious players and not in the size of the market itself . |
| 9 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 10 | I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known . |
| 11 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the most gruesome thing I 've ever seen , ’ said Nigerian-born Dr Alban — real name Alban Nwapa , who this week has shot to No 2 with It 's My Life . |
| 13 | I considered him to be the most unemotional person I have ever known . |
| 14 | The English are the most self-loathing race I can imagine . |
| 15 | Mark laughed and we compared notes on the most garish sights we 'd seen . |
| 16 | In many ways , it 's the most radical BMW you can buy , with styling that , for the time being , bucks the house style , a chassis that refuses to oversteer and a facia that follows a trend instead of setting one . |
| 17 | Watching her sleep , however , is not the most stimulating experience I 've had of late , although I realise that certain New York film-makers would have shot ten solid reels of it and begged for more . |
| 18 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 19 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 20 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 21 | Letting go of your marriage , if it is no longer good for you , can be the most successful thing you 've ever done . |
| 22 | At £5 per quarter , this rarity is not exactly a budget snack , but with a focaccia still warm from the oven and accompanied by a few herb-steeped olives , it could be the most extraordinary sandwich you ever eat . |
| 23 | It really was the most extraordinary outfit I 've ever seen . |
| 24 | That is the most ludicrous thing I 've ever heard . |
| 25 | But his comments sparked an angry response from Torquay chairman Mike Bateson , who said afterwards : ‘ His ( Kelly 's ) remarks that he could watch four games a week and see 200 such tackles was the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard . |
| 26 | Fostex M80 ¼ins ; reel-to-reel eight-track , with Fostex 812 mixer ‘ The 812 is the most recent desk they do ; it has 12 inputs , which I find very useful . |
| 27 | I am a bit in the dark when I try to look up something when the most recent season I have full stats from is over 7 years ago . |
| 28 | In the most recent mills it was made of steel ; but more commonly it was a piece of springy willow wood collected from a convenient pollard . |
| 29 | ‘ This is just the most hateful dress I 've ever seen , ’ she said to Christina . |
| 30 | And he sh he , he said i it 's the most relaxing pastime you could ever have . |