Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 32 | ‘ Are you saying that all my bloody unnatural restraint has achieved is to convince you I do n't find you attractive ? ’ |
| 33 | ‘ My bloody old lungs , ’ he grumbled . |
| 34 | I explained my hopeless parliamentary position if there were any number of resignations . |
| 35 | Guess who baby sits for my full-time working daughter ? |
| 36 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 37 | Dacourt praised my prompt heroic action and I played the role of the modest hero , gulping his wine and giving shrewd assessments of the strategy of the attackers . |
| 38 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
| 39 | to my deaf mute son . |
| 40 | ‘ You know , of course , that something far more monstrous than my adolescent Arabian Nights was being imagined in the young mind of twentieth-century Europe . |
| 41 | For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region . |
| 42 | A mile down the road from the cafe , my lower left shin began to hurt . |
| 43 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 44 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 45 | ( ii ) Suppose that my private visual experience is strikingly atypical in that systematically I see green where others see red . |
| 46 | My private teenage retreat from the cultural isolation of my homeland ; being pissed on by babies in the East End of London |
| 47 | I certainly can James and I 'll bring in my private surgical unit and freeze it off . |
| 48 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 49 | If I turn over I 've also got my eleven scient file , the group that I teach er science to . |
| 50 | One bird drifts overhead and I swear it is gazing at my quill-like yellow boat as I am gazing at its white tail . |
| 51 | ‘ Can I give my Right Honourable Friend two big thank-yous ! ’ , he cried , in a tone suggesting that he would like to accompany them with two big kisses . |
| 52 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 53 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 54 | ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend accept how much I regret , ’ Mr Tebbit had begun his snarl at the Foreign Secretary , ‘ having to say how much I disagree with nearly everything he said and agree with nearly everything said by the Right Honourable Gentleman for the Opposition . ’ |
| 55 | NK : May I ask my Right Honourable friend what club he intends to use on this hole ? |
| 56 | Clearly my right honourable friend the secretary of state will want to hear the views of another place , but I can say that he will not be recommending that the amendment should be overturned . |
| 57 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 58 | In announcing the government 's intention I also made it clear that my right honourable friend had decided that a similar duty should be introduced for auditors of building societies and financial service companies and that my right honourable friend the president of the board of trade would want the approach extended er to the , this approach extended to the auditors of insurance companies . |
| 59 | In announcing the government 's intention I also made it clear that my right honourable friend had decided that a similar duty should be introduced for auditors of building societies and financial service companies and that my right honourable friend the president of the board of trade would want the approach extended er to the , this approach extended to the auditors of insurance companies . |
| 60 | I 'm most grateful to my right honourable friend er for giving way . |