Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
| 2 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 3 | W first of all though I think I 've got them right this time I hope , the World Health Organization , charities , the United Nations , the European Commission erm foreign business organizations and l the bodies that lay down regulations er for activities . |
| 4 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 5 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 6 | but , but , to me going , going skiing is just I mean like , it does n't there 's nothing different each time we go . |
| 7 | ‘ If you could just get me some warm water I — ’ |
| 8 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 9 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 10 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 11 | In my half awake state I heard a shell coming over very low and exploding close by . |
| 12 | That 's what my dreams showed — that underneath my standard teenage exterior I was conkers , stark staring . |
| 13 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 14 | During my forthcoming Presidential Year it is my belief , as I know it is yours , that the Institute should and shall continue to look forward into the 90s and beyond and if there is to be a theme , it should quite simply be ‘ The Institute ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 17 | In my first few months I made some real gaffes — sitting in the wrong part of the dining room , for instance , and using a commanding manner with staff who were n't used to it . |
| 18 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 19 | I think from my own personal preference I would very much like to have an understanding of what happens at the interface between solids and liquids , because this affects so many different branches of chemistry and physics _ the understanding of what happens at interfaces will govern the understanding of what makes things stick together , what makes catalysis occur , the nature of rocks even . |
| 20 | On my own ten-acre farm I grow one quarter of an acre of winter wheat and one quarter of winter rye ( mainly for bread ) , and half an acre of undersown spring dredge mixture ( oats , barley , rye , and peas ) for feeding ‘ on the straw ’ . |
| 21 | If this second approach is right — and despite my own biochemical enthusiasms I believe that it is — then the biochemical events that I study are likely to be very general processes of protein synthesis and membrane modification , sometimes described as ‘ housekeeping ’ . |
| 22 | that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married . |
| 23 | Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits . |
| 24 | He exclaimed , " Woe is me , if I only had my two darling nephews I should not lack a champion . " |
| 25 | And my lovely , my lovely lovely gravy we had . |
| 26 | In my next two chapters I shall attempt to compare the official curriculum in African primary schools with actual curriculum practice , and thus to contrast what official plans say should happen in schools with the realities of what actual schools and real teachers plan and provide . |
| 27 | That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal . |
| 28 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 29 | As diabetic patients have little feedback on their daily lipid concentrations we aimed at determining whether self monitoring of plasma triglyceride concentrations improved lipid concentrations ( and perhaps indirectly glucose concentrations ) in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus . |
| 30 | She says she was mentally and physically abused by her boyfriend , but after 10 months at the hostel with her 2 young sons she 's starting to turn her life around . |