Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to spray my hair black every night . |
| 2 | If you could make my look , my money work a bit harder it would make sense to me , after all . |
| 3 | He brought my sister Mary a doll that closed its eyes when you laid it down . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir I take this libertey to aske the favour for my sister Smith the widow if you have the goodness to recommend her to be the patron for the infurmarey , as her incombe is so very scant , to live on . |
| 5 | Years later , I still discuss with my university students the important lessons I learned from the forest while a young boy . |
| 6 | In the first half of my drawing book the views had a fairly traditional format . |
| 7 | Erm yes I mean they 're I 'm groping for my briefing papers a complicated one this . |
| 8 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 9 | When I saw the monster from the marsh , one night , I was , I was , I was frightened , I , I , I , I was he looked liked a when I saw him I ran back to camp and I felt frightened , I hid under my sleeping bag the end |
| 10 | It was a new me who demanded locks on my bedroom door the next day . |
| 11 | My bedroom flanks the street , it is on street level . |
| 12 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 13 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 14 | I would like to pay my audit staff a lunch allowance of £2 a day when they are working at client premises . |
| 15 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 16 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 17 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 18 | We 're always well off for salmon and trout because my friend Chris the Stuffer keeps us liberally supplied . |
| 19 | ‘ Wait just a minute , ’ Meg said as Hari moved towards the door , ‘ next week , my friend Benny the Clown is appearing here in Swansea , he wears these enormous shoes for his act , he could be a very good customer for you . ’ |
| 20 | That was my phone sessions every week . |
| 21 | They then pass the manuscripts to me , and I or my wife type the journal to a computer file . |
| 22 | Forcing back the tears , I reverse into my bolt hole the narrow gap between the cooker and the washboiler . |
| 23 | I have a bogus copy of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States which has been turned into a fireproof combination lock safe , but that was a professional job done by my mate Lenny the Lathe in return for a favour . |
| 24 | There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near . |
| 25 | Seeing my uncle Reggie a lot . |
| 26 | On the way , all my sisters talked about was the murder and when , on reaching the corner of Fair View Road and Kelsey Road , we met my cousin Violet the gossip was renewed with interest . |
| 27 | Well last Wednesday my supervisor put on my clock card A A. |
| 28 | He chews up my glasses , and had my alarm clock the other night . |
| 29 | I shall take as my starting point a television programme I imagine many of you will have seen recently . |
| 30 | Before turning to these matters , however , I shall use as my starting point the rather more advan-tageous conditions for executive leadership that exist in the United Kingdom . |