Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 2 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 3 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 4 | My argument is yes the maintenance has been increased , my Income Support has n't been increased by a penny |
| 5 | ‘ In my experience snobbishness does n't equate with position , power or possessions . |
| 6 | And we used to go visiting , my Auntie Irene lived there and And we used to go on a Saturday night , I used to ooh and I 've told her , I used to tell I would n't live that , live up that lane rent free . |
| 7 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 8 | My teaching point starting off today |
| 9 | He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development . |
| 10 | They do n't have as much to do with you , I mean my branch manager does n't know what division he 's in . |
| 11 | My Spurs mate has not been in the Railway Tavern , but has agreed to try it out . |
| 12 | She told me to come back to get my blood pressure checked again . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just waiting for my chewing gum to come round again . ’ |
| 14 | So why are my neck hairs rising just writing about it ? |
| 15 | I looked at my port wing to judge the extent of the damage and saw some nasty holes there while my instrument panel had also taken a slight hammering . |
| 16 | My car radiator contains fairly pure water . |
| 17 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 18 | Among the general features of organizations my research group has especially focused on , one of the more subjective , softer aspects is the emotional climate . |
| 19 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 20 | You knew nothing of my breakdown , although you were very concerned about my tremendous physical tiredness ; and my college attendance dropped considerably . |
| 21 | As I sit here with my cardigan sleeves rolled up , I reflect on the two alternatives — having them unrolled and falling over the typewriter keys or ignoring the instructions and making the sleeves a more suitable length in the first place . |
| 22 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |
| 23 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 24 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 25 | ‘ He has no ‘ side ’ , ‘ my Aunt Lyallie said approvingly for she had always thought Americans were a stuck-up , boastful lot . |
| 26 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 27 | ‘ Thirty degrees at a guess , but fast ; my reference star has already gone behind the filament engagement assembly . ’ |
| 28 | I can not say whether this manifestation was a product of opium or not but ever after the most excruciating of my opium torments have regularly visited me with his likeness and the haunted corridors of my mind have resounded with his peculiar bombast . |
| 29 | My waist size had suddenly increased and I could not get into my trousers any more . |
| 30 | In my opinion Anna acted more childishly but through no fault of her own . |