Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eyes fell on the bed and to my horror something began slowly to stir under the blanket . |
| 2 | To my horror I have just noticed that you are not credited among the other helpful photographers in our recruitment leaflet . |
| 3 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 4 | Fortunately in my confusion I had sometimes visualized one lung and sometimes the other . |
| 5 | Dealing with one or two specific points that have been raised , particularly with regard to size , in my view the balanced community which can be envisaged within a new settlement will provide for housing , employment , community services , and recreational opportunities , it will not simply be a peripheral housing estate transferred to the open countryside , in my submission I have already stated that I do believe a new settlement of up to fourteen hundred dwellings should indeed be viable , and commercially attractive to the development industry . |
| 6 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 7 | I hope it 's light when I do my test I 've just got ta do a back got black sort of snow white and I 'm gon na do . |
| 8 | When I got to my room they 'd already brought in my things and Karen , she 's my key worker , she helped me unpack . |
| 9 | ‘ Since I married my husband I 've only met two men , that 's in seven years , that I 've even been tempted with , ’ said the voice above her . |
| 10 | Oh my god I 've just realized something . |
| 11 | Certainly to the best of my knowledge we have fully complied with all the legislation . |
| 12 | In my knowledge he has never spoken to us about this business . |
| 13 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 14 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 15 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 16 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
| 17 | Then , when we went upstairs , he says to me , Mary , he says , first time he called me that in years , Mary , why is it all my life I 've always got the timing wrong ? |
| 18 | In all the days of my life I 've never seen such a rebellion against God 's will — nor against his appointed ministers . |
| 19 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 20 | At home in Darlington , he said : ‘ It 's the first time in my life I have actually enjoyed being who I am . |
| 21 | You 've been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art . ’ |
| 22 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 23 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 24 | And if I visited my grandfather I went upstairs to see him in his rooms and I came downstairs to visit my grandmother . ’ |
| 25 | Throughout my account he had steadily tapped his biro , a steel-plated one , end over end on his desk blotter . |
| 26 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 27 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 28 | In my bag I 've only got … |
| 29 | I mean I know that people have been hit by the mortgage rise and of course in my lifetime I 've never known anything like this . |
| 30 | The South Africans have threatened to kill the guerrillas who do not surrender , while insisting that for their part they have scrupulously observed the agreements . |