Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
2 | It 's a tiny little things you know er in glass cases now there are a few at bus stops but a lot of people do n't use bus stops any more you know they drive erm I know that posters great hoardings that we some of us probably grew up with when everybody knew what was on and the great big posters everywhere . |
3 | There are a great many things we have to do today , ’ he added over his shoulder . |
4 | Nonetheless , we should keep the two patterns distinct , first as a matter of proper investigative practice , because the distinction though subtle is real ; second , because in a great many cases it does make a quite easily discernible difference to the interpretation intended and required ; and , third , because it has some quite substantial grammatical consequences . |
5 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
6 | Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life . |
7 | Finally , Shooting the Actor ( RC79 ; 3 hours approx ) is different again : Simon Callow reading his own diary of a long six weeks he spent in Yugoslavia towards the end of 1987 , acting in a film called Manifesto under the direction of Dusan Makavejev , and monitoring daily , in understandably narcissistic vein , the deterioration of their professional relationship . |
8 | Stretching for a good twelve feet it read in red on white THE GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY RACE TRAIN , and in blue letters a good deal smaller underneath , THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB , MERRY & CO AND VIA RAIL PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF CANADIAN RACING . |
9 | ‘ If I told you that you had a good many things I am interested in ? ’ |
10 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
11 | After a terrible 15 minutes I managed to talk again to the same doctor and she explained that elevated meant they were not nought , not as I had thought , that they were going up . |
12 | to England it was a terrible few winters I remember really hard ones |
13 | After a heart-stopping few minutes it was realized that it could be just squeezed through with about three-quarters of an inch to spare . |
14 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
15 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
16 | When I was a student in Germany and encountering fierce anti-semitism and a fierce anti-Jewish relations I , I soon realised that at the back of this was a direct attack upon the concrete revelation of God in history through Israel and the church , which called in question German nationalism , German blood and soil . |
17 | However , where there are small numbers of members of a particular Anonymous Fellowships it may be difficult to obtain sufficient numbers to get the maximum benefit from the group process . |