Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy gave an involuntary shiver because she was afraid he was right . |
| 2 | A commitment fee is payable on an unused facility until it is drawn-down by the borrower while an agent fee is payable to the agent bank . |
| 3 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 4 | Sien was in an exhausted doze when he went in with her small daughter and her mother . |
| 5 | Finniston pauses for an ironical chuckle as he recollects the weight of responsibility placed upon his shoulders at the time . |
| 6 | Candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be required to pass an Oral Test before they can be awarded a certificate . |
| 7 | Candidates whose mother tongue is not English will be required to pass an Oral Test before they can be awarded a certificate . |
| 8 | Alternatively , you can make an oral record if you have a dictation machine . |
| 9 | I felt an unbelievable relief when we were all up to the tizi and the real exploration could begin . |
| 10 | It is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely point of having an ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ; it is like using an elephant gun to fire air-rifle pellets ; inappropriate , inaccurate and completely unbalanced . |
| 11 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 12 | Once briefly a prospector on the Yukon , he is now a BBC radio producer , fitting in an extensive travelling when he can . |
| 13 | Then we have got an outstanding chance because we have got Romania at home in the last game . |
| 14 | Reasons against : There 'll be an awful row if I broach the subject . |
| 15 | My stuff seems to get into an awful pickle when it 's translated . ’ |
| 16 | The agent 's an awful duffer when it comes to dates . |
| 17 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to have to get out of bed to cry every night and was in an awful way when I passed the Droppin' Well . |
| 19 | And that would have been an awful loss if you had lost a a a a ham . |
| 20 | He has an awful thirst since he come back from serving in Egypt . |
| 21 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 22 | Well I 'll tell you what that 's gon na be an awful job if it is ! |
| 23 | I was n't drinking an awful lot so I decided that even with the difficulties I was going to have Darren home for good . |
| 24 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 25 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 26 | For Diana , the last few months had been an emotional rollercoaster as she had tried to come to terms with her new life as a public figure and the suffocating publicity as well as her husband 's ambiguous behaviour towards her . |
| 27 | They had offered Dalglish an emotional welcome when he emerged before the game and took an unfamiliar place on the visitors ' bench . |
| 28 | I was an emotional morsel as we headed back . |
| 29 | So it was inevitable that there would be an emotional outburst when it was revealed that the local health authority are investigating the much-loved GP for working too hard . |
| 30 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |