Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ .
2 My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims .
3 My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’
4 My heart goes out to the father and to all the family .
5 My hair falls out at the slightest touch , sometimes leaving little bald patches .
6 ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said .
7 My contract runs out at the end of this trip .
8 ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’
9 Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house .
10 My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’
11 It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course .
12 Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil …
13 My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake .
14 I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway .
15 My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 .
16 My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio .
17 Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present .
18 My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar .
19 My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way .
20 My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated .
21 My work came out of the social situation within which I found myself … ’
22 Yes I remember my granny coming out with the word
23 As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me !
24 and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic
25 First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning .
26 It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm .
27 I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now .
28 I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky .
29 My head bobbed out into the cold dry air .
30 I let my mouth fall open and set my glass down heavily on the table , allowing my head to fall back against the chair and my eyes to close , in the imitation of unconsciousness .
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