Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] names " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 2 | The semantic net does not have a particular linear version burnt into it and must distinguish different history subsections by giving them distinct names . |
| 3 | I gave them false names , they checked my fingerprints and found out who I was . |
| 4 | Guy supplied grimly , dropping a possessive kiss on her mouth , ‘ Since I arrived in St Lucia for a spell of solitary soul-searching , and an evil-tempered harpy with a mop of red hair and no clothes on leapt off my bed and started calling me rude names … ’ |
| 5 | The madam might occasionally slap the girls or call them rude names , but in the end she wants the customers to buy at least one of them . |
| 6 | PAMELA : If I should say I am not , then you will call me hard names and perhaps I shall tell a fib . |
| 7 | He heard me crying about you , and he called you rude names . |
| 8 | Derngate , our prestigious entertainment centre on Guildhall Road , brings you famous names from around the world in a packed programme of concerts , musicals , dance , drama and variety . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to get angry because you call me stupid names . |
| 10 | Noah was in a particularly bad mood one dinner-time , and so he tried to make Oliver cry by hitting him , pulling his hair , and calling him horrible names . |
| 11 | ( Like many new proteins this has been discovered by different groups , which have given it different names . ) |
| 12 | Give 'em high-flown names these days . |
| 13 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 14 | As the influence of Christianity spread , the new religion gradually embraced and took over the festivals , giving them new names and meanings . |
| 15 | On the Etive slabs Rab and Chris Anderson climbed three lines on the section of slab some 70m right of the Coffin Stone , and gave them punny names as usual . |
| 16 | I can write , you know you 've given them middle names , you know , that suitable middle names |
| 17 | This usually presents as sentimentality and my mother talked to her cactuses with affection and called them sweet names . |