Example sentences of "[det] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | This procedure can suggest a replacement for about half the genuine miskeyings it receives , and the replacement is usually right ( although it does suggest " teacher " for " Thacher " ) . |
| 3 | Have to oh shit I du n no I ca n't remember half the fucking conversations I had . |
| 4 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 5 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 6 | Two or three years later with half a million troops they are still no further forward in their struggle in Vietnam and the cost this time was to the United States ' political system because the effect upon domestic politics was fairly severe . |
| 7 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 8 | The difference between having a good time and a bad time is so minimal it 's unbelievable , but this , with three points for a win , situation it makes it so hard to say well we 're a bottom side , we 're a top side , all of a sudden in half a dozen games we could be like a top side . |
| 9 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 10 | ‘ Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember , ’ said Rosalind Russell , ‘ and they 'll leave the theatre happy . ’ |
| 11 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 12 | After half a dozen tries I was n't cold any more . |
| 13 | ‘ Of all the low points I suffered , one of the worst was when I was deprived of the chance of winning a third world cross country title because I was n't allowed to compete in 1988 , ’ explained the 26-year-old . |
| 14 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |
| 15 | You love me — even after all the terrible things I 've done ? |
| 16 | ‘ Would you credit it — all these years I 've wondered how on earth you 've managed to avoid falling in love , given all the glorious hunks you had to choose from , just falling over themselves to be near you . |
| 17 | May I borrow some space in your magazine to say a big thank you for all the good wishes we have received in connection with the Presidency of the Baptist Union of Scotland ? |
| 18 | Remember all the good times you shared . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Place needs all the good teachers it can get , from what I can gather , ’ said Major Tilney . |
| 20 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
| 21 | ‘ All the good things he does are not always appreciated by outsiders and he 'll captain the team at Leeds . |
| 22 | Well , you can start by trying to live each day to the full ; cram in all the good things you can . |
| 23 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
| 24 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 25 | In all the packed lunches she put together there was invariably an item included that only someone who had known her long ago , before the war , would have troubled to include . |
| 26 | We 're not saying that that er has been done er through all the cheap channels I do n't blame him probably do the same . |
| 27 | Some fat women are positive about their bodies and consider themselves powerful , beautiful , sexual , voluptuous and juicy , but many more of us internalise all the negative messages we receive about fat ( clumsy . |
| 28 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 29 | " The Meeting require that the Medical gentlemen who receive annual allowances from this Meeting do produce a distinct list of all the poor Patients they have attended during the course of the Year , and the medicines bestowed upon such Patients . " |
| 30 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |