Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford are our only side playing this weekend … team news … player manager Greg Downs is fit again and is likely to be back in defence … centre half Kevan Smith who had a spell with the club last season has been signed up again and is in the squad … |
| 2 | On a Sunday and a Saturday , Saturday 's me worst day he reckons . |
| 3 | Yes they 're erm I mean there erm Malton 's what thirty minutes drive from York , Pickering 's probably forty five , up to an hour . |
| 4 | The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues . |
| 5 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 6 | He said he 's like to try just not er old en Robert Hardy 's our special patron really here , he 's very interested in coming to the banquet , he was up the other week was n't he , last Friday whenever it was . |
| 7 | A Lungfish is my constant companion in and out of the fishhouse |
| 8 | In here at seven o'clock next Friday is our next meeting . |
| 9 | I reckon Marie 's my best friend now . |
| 10 | David is my fifth baby , and his birthweight was 6 lb 10oz , which was a lot lighter than any of my previous babies . |
| 11 | Well David is his second name . |
| 12 | Pat is my older sister . |
| 13 | if he is only 5'11 and assuming that O'Leary is our other choice in the middle , neither would be that good in the air . |
| 14 | Well Tuesday is my busiest day . |
| 15 | Well Saturday is your worst day cos we have telly on till twelve o'clock at night . |
| 16 | ‘ And Lilian is my right-hand man . |
| 17 | ‘ Jeff was my best friend and my brother ; he was my spiritual and musical mentor since 1972 and I never lost anybody this close to me before . |
| 18 | He began to grow tobacco , raising some capital from Abraham Burrell , but Henry Somerscales was his main partner , for Somerscales had learned in Holland how to cultivate tobacco , and took responsibility for the sale of the matured crop . |
| 19 | Dennis was our ribbed condom , our french tickler . |
| 20 | Leila stood behind the girl , hands on her shoulders , as proud as if Ari was her own daughter . |
| 21 | Curiously , Larry Turman told Arthur Hiller that the thing that finally swayed them towards Dustin was his 45-second spot in The Tiger Makes Out . |
| 22 | Hardy was my poetical father and if I seldom read him now , it is , perhaps because our relationship is so assured as no longer to need being made conscious . |
| 23 | ‘ Richard was my worst nightmare , ’ Jennifer said . |
| 24 | Lucy was her immaculate self at work in the morning ; they had a drink in the pub , and it was as if that evening , the story , the kiss , the flowers , had not been . |
| 25 | England recovered well from a slow start and their 3 ½-½ victory over the United States was their widest margin ever in matches between the two countries . |
| 26 | The second Ken was my Permanent Secretary , Sir Kenneth Stowe . |
| 27 | The inevitable comparison with Horowitz followed , though from the start Gavrilov was his own man , nurturing and projecting a style and brilliance all his own and remaining true to his own lights thoroughout his mercurial career . |
| 28 | So Dana was my European exploiter ; I was his Daisy Miller . |
| 29 | Georgina was my main reason for leaving in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Often staying at Marchmont was his dear wife Brigid 's father , James Laver , writer on the history of fashion , one time Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum , and a marvellous raconteur . |