Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , what blew against my ankles like tumbleweed that afternoon was not the crinkle of Mumm NV but the discarded skin of my former being , my beetle carapace , my sloughed and umber appurtenances . |
| 2 | Help restore my faith in women All letters answered Photo appreciated . |
| 3 | I can not include any Psalm among the certain contemporary documents , because I confess my inability to date any Psalm securely in the Maccabean period . |
| 4 | In order to avoid a major rebellion , Father eventually gave in and lugged my piece of wood all the way to Berwickshire . |
| 5 | I am afraid to talk , afraid to open my mouth in case all the dammed-up love words that I am feeling flood out of it . |
| 6 | ‘ I found this on my return from America this morning ; it was followed by a phone call from my sister — a very emotional phone call , I might add — and I came here at once . ’ |
| 7 | She said : ‘ Everybody else says they are very pleased to be here in fact I am very relieved to be here because another TV station was at my home in Dumfriesshire this morning to try to speak to me and I am thankfully in London so I missed them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I expected to see the prince my husband at Mass this morning , my lady , she said . |
| 9 | ‘ Friday : Anyone who saw my appearance on Wogan that week could be forgiven for thinking I was serenely confident , chic-ly gowned and nicely made-up . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had to be a good liar myself to keep my head above water all this time . |
| 11 | I first met Mr. Docherty , a 32-year-old man who originates from the Hemsworth area , while canvassing in a local government by-election in my constituency during March this year . |
| 12 | ‘ We were all very shocked — I told my partners at prayers this morning . |
| 13 | I bought the house in 1983 with the assistance of two loans , £30,000 from Halifax and £10,000 from Standard Life , supported by four Standard Life endowment policies on my life at £10,000 each . |
| 14 | Chester so churned my stomach at breakfast this morning I could not face my sausage , egg and Guinness . |
| 15 | On my way to conference this morning , I went in and bought a packet of eight tampons . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to be absolutely up to my eyebrows in work this week-end . |
| 17 | Le I let you take my dinner in peace that 's why we did nay record our dinner . |
| 18 | But my spirits in Cuzco this second sojourn in the city had been mercurial to say the least . |
| 19 | I could n't afford my house in London any more , so I decided to try to buy a house in the country . |
| 20 | It was n't the bomb in John Lewis that put my nerves on edge this year , even though I felt the echoing shudder of it . |
| 21 | ‘ I seem to spend most of my time at meetings these days . ’ |
| 22 | No one sneers about her weakness for shoes these days . |
| 23 | 1 on the ground , having been flown from their barracks in Omagh some twenty miles away . |
| 24 | The council has lost the opportunity to demonstrate that the Community can respond to a crisis and give its policies on fisheries some credibility . |
| 25 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 26 | How Sun gets its resellers to toe this line remains to be seen . |
| 27 | For all their liveliness of style any of the above national dances seen in one ballet resemble those in another because choreographers such as Petipa , Bournonville and Saint-Léon utilised the same steps and ports de bras again and again . |
| 28 | Pro-Republican Catholics did express their opinions in newspapers such as the Leeds Citizen . |
| 29 | The presence of IBS in individuals has not been linked to their fibre intake and its presence in countries such as China makes it unlikely that a single dietary factor such as fibre deficiency is at fault . |
| 30 | Poorer households are known to spend a larger proportion of their income on essentials such as food and fuel for heating . |