Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this happened , it was a piece of private enterprise and done without the agreement of my election team or myself . |
| 2 | ‘ … my harness slipper and I dropped ten thousand feet hanging by one leg . |
| 3 | It was tempting to march him home and face him with my sewing machine and its 10-point threader . |
| 4 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 5 | I ushered her into my sitting room and she continued . |
| 6 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because it 's my wedding present and I 'm not a superstitious idiot like you . ’ |
| 8 | A sketch wad found on my locker door and I believe the author was Nobby Hall ; he had opposed my views on ditching , as well he might , since he was an ex-officer , Merchant Navy , who had joined the RAF as a direct entry sergeant pilot in the Baldwin expansion period , and it was indeed ironic that he should perish and his crew saved . |
| 9 | I 've broadened my football knowledge and it 's been a vital part of my education in the game . |
| 10 | It was too cold to push my face far out of my sleeping bag but I could see the yellow damp stain , like a map , on the wall opposite , and the little nest of cobwebs in a comer of the ceiling . |
| 11 | Then she gets back into bed , dressing gown and all , and I hop back into my sleeping bag and we drink our tea . |
| 12 | A tall tree spreads its branches outside my bedroom window and everything is different from what I 've known : to my ears , my nostrils and my taste buds . |
| 13 | THERE WAS A knock on my bedroom door and it opened . |
| 14 | I was rather late back , when I got back I heard a knock on my bedroom door and she said it 's Miss and er I said , oh come in , I undid the door and she came in and er and so she said to me er , I just had a telephone message from Peel er to say that you have been subpoenaed to go the Police Court next Thursday and I said what a day out of my holiday and she said , well I 'm sorry but you 'll have to go . |
| 15 | We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement . |
| 16 | My mother looked dissatisfied , but I switched off my bedroom light and we were moving downstairs towards Robert and the tray of martinis . |
| 17 | And although I did n't like my pig wife or my pig mother come to that — I was very fond of my pig father . |
| 18 | She said , and I 'm gon na talk about my cat Ginger and my brother 's car an , and my brother 's Barney , oh by the way Barney 's dead ! |
| 19 | My dancing partner and her parents turned up , a little bit embarrassing for me as my French was very limited as far as conversation was concerned . |
| 20 | I shall miss the kind and generous people of Normandy , the farmer Saulnier , the Monsieur and Madame of the Café at Benouville bridge , and all the other French civilians , not forgetting my dancing partner and her very hospitable parents . |
| 21 | She 's gon na turn round and say you ca n't complain about my work rate and we 're not complaining about her work rate . |
| 22 | She came round on Tuesday for my hamper money and she said , everything was cos , I said I 'd pay her monthly and she turned up and I said , I thought I was paying you monthly ? |
| 23 | I continued to do well , but there was an increasing gap between my home life and my aspirations , as these became more like possibilities . |
| 24 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 25 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 26 | I picked up my lunch box and I walked to school . |
| 27 | ‘ That was my toast soldier and you took it , ’ said Jacqueline . |
| 28 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 29 | She was holding my fob watch and she said a few things about this , and about us and about dead people and |
| 30 | either the fish is completely exhausted or given no time to gather its power , for I direct it straight to my landing net and it slips inside quite easily . |