Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun prp] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 2 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 3 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 4 | She was a very little dolly bird you know and she looked a real Miss Trendsetter you know , in the mini dress you know . |
| 5 | For example , if you have a Black Orc Warlord you must have at least one Mob of Black Orcs in your army . |
| 6 | But against a resolute Portadown defence they were getting little change . |
| 7 | On a sunny Sunday morning they left Raasay . |
| 8 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | He had been asked what happened when he was making routine checks on a red Sierra car he and Special Constable Glenn Goodman , 37 , stopped on the A64 between York and Leeds last June . |
| 10 | As a long-time Japan watcher I am continually surprised by the Japanese capacity for tolerance and forgiveness of both private and public infractions . |
| 11 | From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was , however , destined to make his impression on the world . |
| 12 | He certainly succeeded — in a local DlY centre he found the " Octavia Chalet " , which is custom built to order . |
| 13 | On a bright February morning they 're up to their wellied ankles in mud and water , turning a formerly ignored site on the edge of heavy industry into a nature haven . |