Example sentences of "an [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When combined and presented in an Advanced level question it is difficult to see the underlying historical problems . |
| 2 | ‘ Then what an unfeeling little brute you are to be sure . |
| 3 | But you know , what an awful Scotch thick-head I am , and that I never give up a thing , before I do not see the absolute impossibility . ’ |
| 4 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 5 | Stocks of the attached leaflet have almost run out and as this was always intended to be an interim in-house production we now feel we should produce a glossier version on a better quality paper in the style of the leaflets we have recently produced for Community Care and Assessment . |
| 6 | From behind the headstone of an old Muslim grave he produced an oblong parcel trussed up in flowery chintz . |
| 7 | He walked her out the doors and down the steps , and kissed her on the cheek as if she were an old maiden aunt he had developed a polite affection for . |
| 8 | It ought to be a single , but it 's filled with an old double bed they must have folded in half to squeeze in here , and the internal walls are cheap partitions from where they gutted the Edwardian interior and crammed in as many cubicles as they could . |
| 9 | ‘ What an old fat pig he is , ’ commented and the boys shrieked with laughter . |
| 10 | After spending an itinerant early childhood he was educated first at an eccentric preparatory school intended for the sons of Christian Scientists , St Michael 's in Uckfield , Sussex , and later at Repton , from where , at the age of sixteen , he ran away . |
| 11 | This is a thrilling construction , and if you fancy an interesting low-level walk you can follow it all the way from the Aonach Mor ski-area car park , through the Leanachan forest to the start point for The Grey Corries . |
| 12 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |
| 13 | To become an acceptable philosophic theory it has to be extended in one of two different directions . |
| 14 | In an average Brazilian bus-load you will find an incredible mixture of races — European , native-Indian , Japanese , negro — all possible hues from black through khaki to fair-haired people who are probably of German descent . |
| 15 | For an additional five bucks she did the talking topless . |
| 16 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 17 | And it was worn in the eighteen forties , and they were a very ordinary , ordinary family , I ca n't remember what Mr Dew did , but I mean , it was nothing special , he was he was just an ordinary professional man I think . |
| 18 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 19 | As an early domestic melodrama it is not without interest , but this sermonising evening is , frankly , a slog with only fitful rewards along the way . |
| 20 | And then Jason yeah and they 're like saying , they say look it was an early seventies crime you 've got ta help us , how would you handle it because they 're not allowed to use fast cars and guns and he goes find a country house |
| 21 | Wolves and dogs can interbreed , though in an ideal natural state they prefer not to . |
| 22 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 23 | At the time of an international armed conflict it may be difficult to obtain a formal ratification from a non-party , but acceptance of the provisions for the duration of the conflict may be possible . |
| 24 | There 's an interesting historical paradox in the impact of AIDS on the gay community because without the existence of an international gay community I do n't think AIDS as a disease could have had the rapid impact it 's had on gay men . |
| 25 | I 'm getting an automatic next time I go in there . |
| 26 | ‘ What an uptight young lady you are . ’ |
| 27 | When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely . |
| 28 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 29 | In other words , to obtain an initial fair comparison we would have to multiply the industrial related deaths by at least a factor of two and compare that figure with the number of recorded homicide cases . |
| 30 | I 'm going to buy an artificial this year I 'm sick of the real ones . |