Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 2 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 3 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 4 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 5 | And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries |
| 6 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 7 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 8 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 9 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 10 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 11 | Something permanent happened to my heart when I watched him , a tough street kid , cooing over his offspring . |
| 12 | Ronnie , who also learned he is a grandfather , said : ‘ It broke my heart when I read her letter saying she had missed me . ’ |
| 13 | It broke my heart when I heard , and Nicolo — oh , he was so upset ! |
| 14 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 15 | ‘ You stopped my heart when you took that particular opportunity … ’ |
| 16 | Frankly , it wo n't break my heart if we do n't see them at all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 18 | Maria Luisa is not in my heart as you think . |
| 19 | ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ warmed my heart because I think : here is vision , here is faith , and here are people who are setting a target and they are wanting to move towards it . ’ |
| 20 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 21 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
| 22 | ‘ I closed off … yes , I did close off my heart because you had closed off yours , ’ she insisted quickly , her words coming in a rush . |
| 23 | I dug a comb out of my bag and adjusted the driving mirror so I could sort out my hair before it dried frizzy . |
| 24 | ‘ Speaking of which , do n't you think we 'd better get this glop off my hair before it turns it green ? ’ |
| 25 | Are you going to do my hair before you leave ? |
| 26 | I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na get a proper conditioner for my hair cos it do n't look ! |
| 28 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 29 | The wind whipped at my hair whilst my stomach lurched in horror at the dreadful sight below . |
| 30 | Conditioners for my hair because it gets really dry and definitely lipstick , I have to have my red lippy . |