Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put on my all-innocent , how-could-you-think-it-of-me expression . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not investigating the murder of Miss Beatrix Abberley , but I shall certainly pass on my tentative conclusions to the Sussex Police . |
| 3 | I was not , for once , wearing my battledress trousers , but had put on my uniform skirt with my battledress top . |
| 4 | I will try to slant my handwriting to be more adult like , I will try to get many merit points , I will try to get at the top sets for every lesson you are in the top sets for every lesson do well in them , I want to carry on my good progress in the sports area , I do many sports now and I want to do more |
| 5 | Impervious to the babble of conversation and the pop music blaring from the dancers ' dressing room , I stick the exaggerated lashes in place , put on my spectacular Medusa-like crown and walk through the Green Room to the coffee-making area . |
| 6 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 7 | I put on my black wool suit and my best silk blouse as consolation — might as well , before she somehow manages to ruin that , too . |
| 8 | I fussed about , preparing myself , washing , combing my hair and putting on my borrowed finery . |
| 9 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 10 | No erm su er no hang on , hang on my regional , they want my regional accent er well I would have said it 's standard received northern . |
| 11 | If I may put on my nationalistic hat for a moment , one issue which concerns us greatly in Wales is the disproportionate cut in regular and volunteer troops . |
| 12 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 13 | I put on my old trouser 's and welly boots this morning , it said it was going to be so messy . |
| 14 | I just put on my superior knowledgeable look and tell her she 'll be told when she 's older . |
| 15 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 16 | Putting on my wet clothes , I moved out of the hut . |
| 17 | At seven-thirty next morning , I put on my running shoes and green army jeans and began jogging the eighteen miles to Reggane . |
| 18 | I put on my stern voice so I would n't giggle . |
| 19 | I put on my clean uniform and adjusted my beret , blousing my trousers over the buckles of my combat boots . |
| 20 | Then she helped me put on my white satin dress , after which I pulled on my shoes . |
| 21 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 22 | But now I just think of those vultures and carry on my predatory way … ’ |
| 23 | That much perfume I 've put on my cold sores , . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do n't look particularly good in either , ’ Mark said , ‘ but , putting on my British hat first : yes , Prime Minister , the United Kingdom is at a considerable disadvantage when multi-nationals consider investment locations in Europe . |
| 25 | Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head ! |
| 26 | Eventually my real father emigrated to New Zealand . |
| 27 | Breathing with the others , my heart began to beat very fast , and soon my fingertips were tingling. ; eventually my whole body was filled by trembling . |
| 28 | ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . ) |
| 29 | Luckily my own wife has n't called . ’ |
| 30 | They preferred Edward Goulding , whom Baldwin described as ‘ an Irishman , whom I then thought and think still , to be vastly my inferior . |