Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | writes from , : MY eight-year-old grand-daughter Jennifer is learning a song at dancing school , The Black Bottom . |
| 2 | As my usual walking activities are limited to a little fell walking in the Lakes or North Wales , with friends who usually do the navigating , the TMB was certainly ambitious . |
| 3 | My usual snack foods are : … |
| 4 | To my pleasant surprise Venturous was chosen to represent our Department . |
| 5 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 6 | My broad bean plants are covered in little brown spots on the leaves . |
| 7 | A lot of my old school friends are doing that now and they are just hanging loose without a care in the world , it sounds great . |
| 8 | My old friend Robson was head of your organisation during the last war , and I have a run-off of a cartoon dated October , 1939 , which he sent to me . |
| 9 | The rise in my old age pension is £2.25 a week . |
| 10 | My social security number was written on the side of my head . |
| 11 | I eat around 2000 to 2500 calories per day , have a sedentary job and my weekly exercise schedule is as follows two x 30 minutes , one x 6 miles , two x 30 minutes weight training . |
| 12 | My favourite guitar players are people like Arthur Lee , Jeff Beck and Dave Davies . |
| 13 | My favourite video game is Quest . |
| 14 | MY FAVOURITE CHOCOLATE BAR IS A |
| 15 | Some of my favourite lace patterns are : |
| 16 | My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen , near Castletown ; an expert 's loch if ever there was one . |
| 17 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 18 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 19 | It does n't matter if this essay does only end up one side long , my standard grade folio is almost complete anyway . |
| 20 | My actual retirement date was the twenty second of July . |
| 21 | And so my early music memories are probably hearing him and my father play duets ; my Dad 's also a very good trumpet player and my grandfather , too , is a professional trumpet player . |
| 22 | Me right hand side is John one of the candidates , and my left hand side is er Frank . |
| 23 | Dan continues , ‘ My left wing tip was almost in Colonel Seawell 's right waist window . |
| 24 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 25 | But I do n't think my amorous rival Pascoe was too delighted to receive advice and assistance from me . |
| 26 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 27 | Well my fucking , my deep fat fryer 's sitting out we got an electric one we used to have the one that was on the cooker |
| 28 | I want to make sure my flat extension roof is waterproof for winter . |
| 29 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 30 | At the moment my preferred delivery date is Monday 24 May , and I wonder if we could collect the items from you — or have them delivered to us — at around 9.15 that morning . |