Example sentences of "i a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 2 | I could n't answer that question because my thoughts were aimed at you , not at the painful roots of my current practice but at you , the conjuring of feelings by the spell and ritual of words , the seducing of you with poetry , I a pedlar tumbling stories before your dais . |
| 3 | Finally , J. got tired of my everlasting complaints , took pity on me and made me a small electric fire . |
| 4 | Before me a small busy creek bubbles in private mirth . |
| 5 | George patted Robert on the shoulder and pointed out to me a small white flag blowing stiffly outside to the right of the front windows . |
| 6 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 8 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 9 | It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’ |
| 10 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 11 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 12 | We rushed along the corridor to a small private room with a bathroom en suite , and as the door slammed shut behind me a virtual volcanic eruption shook the other end of my torso … |
| 13 | It is the work of a novelist and Journalist , not an academic , and notwithstanding the sometimes excessive brightness of the prose and the shortwindedness of the articles it seems to me a brilliant late embodiment of the Anglo-American tradition of literary and social criticism . |
| 14 | ‘ For me a classic pop song has a great hook , but you always leave something out for people to put in themselves , ’ says John . |
| 15 | He gave me a final incredulous look before quickening his steps to the head of the column . |
| 16 | It teaches me a deep metallic pillow-talk |
| 17 | He gave me a great long lecture on what homosexuals do . |
| 18 | Now this act can take any form you like , I could go or I can go right , then I 'll go like this , and I want you all give me a great big round of applause . |
| 19 | Mr Hobbs gave her back her teeth and she shot me a desperate little smile . |
| 20 | Give me a nineteenth nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 21 | His decrepitude — the historically stained clothes , that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin — set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition ; a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition . |
| 22 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 23 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 24 | First mix me a nice light green . |
| 25 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 26 | Give me a good broad beach with a reasonable slope and not too much seaweed , and a fair-sized stream , and I 'll be happy all day , any day . |
| 27 | Go and design me a good big handle , Howard . ’ |
| 28 | Give me a good electric stove any day , or even an old-fashioned wood range . ’ |
| 29 | Ceri ( 4.2 ) : My mum is buying me a new bathing suit . |
| 30 | Please bring me a new central defender or two , preferably youngs ones who know how to play this footy type game . |