Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | Most of my work I do in the evenings when he 's in bed , ’ Ashley explained . |
| 4 | In my dream I flew through a twilight until I reached a forest of enormous trees . |
| 5 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 6 | When I quit my job it felt like the end of term , it felt like Saturday morning , it felt great , it felt illegal . |
| 7 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 8 | Those of his generation ( to my shock I wake to the realisation of senior membership ) who call themselves writers practise all the genres and will write anything for money — even , like Auden , for a brace of cheap cigars . ’ |
| 9 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 10 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 11 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 12 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 13 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 14 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ For much of my life I lived in the Hacienda de Nieve surrounded by savage formality . |
| 16 | Heavenly Father , thank you that as I come to you with my concerns about the conflicts in my life I come to a God who understands my humanity completely because you shared this experience fully in the life of your Son . |
| 17 | Yes , my schooling I went to the School in nineteen seventeen in the middle of the First World War . |
| 18 | From the comfort of my armchair I reach across the table and pick up the gun . |
| 19 | But while I lay in my bed I thought about the accident . |
| 20 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 21 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 22 | Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity . |
| 23 | This narrow interpretation may be ingenious but in my judgment it flies in the face of the ordinary meaning of the language and of the purpose of the statute . |
| 24 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 25 | At 11 o'clock on the night of my visit we went on a fox shoot . |
| 26 | Later in my visit I travelled to a village where AIDS victims had been left to rot in a hut because they were thought to have been bewitched . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , just before I set up my workshop I sent off the application form to the appropriate office , ’ Ashley explained , ‘ but there was no acknowledgement . |
| 28 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 29 | We saw in chapter 4 that mixtures may be homogeneous , in which case they exist as a single phase , or they may be heterogeneous . |
| 30 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |