Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [coord] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been allowed to take off my shirt and am working in just shorts and plimsolls . |
| 2 | It was n't the best news to come home to — finding my renegade nephew had not only broken and entered my apartment but was bent on destroying an important career opportunity by eloping with some feather-brained teenager ! |
| 3 | But the contrast was so ludicrous that the thought flashed straight across my mind and was gone . |
| 4 | I came out of the station , having had my break and was putting it into my notebook — ‘ refreshments at such-and-such a time , leave such- and such a time ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I love Amenartas with my body and am bound to her , but it is not so with my spirit . |
| 6 | Ma'am , I have been reading my Bible and am left in no doubt that I have sinned and am paying the just penalty for sin and I repent strongly but to no avail as yet . |
| 7 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 8 | I shook my head and was saved from further entreaties by the arrival once again of the children who all wanted choice titbits from the grownups , ‘ table ’ , kisses and praise . |
| 9 | The Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill , which affects my constituency and is returning to the House for the third time , now has an EIS which has been published and is freely available to the hon. Members in the Vote Office . |
| 10 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to read early-day motion 316 , which stands in my name and is supported by about 40 right hon. and hon. Members ? |
| 11 | Norman Bayles was a cousin to my father and was related to Mother through the Tallentire family . |
| 12 | That might just be my age or being set in my ways , but I do n't see that excitement . |
| 13 | As well as El CID , he starred opposite Sally Field in Not Without My Daughter and was showered with praise for his portrayal as tortured comic Tony Hancock . |
| 14 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 16 | I had dressed after my shower and was sitting on the steps of the shower room staring dully through the wire . |
| 17 | I had finished my breakfast and was reading the newspaper . |
| 18 | He splashed some down the front of my tunic and was gone . |
| 19 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 20 | He had big nose in my face and was blowing impatiently . |
| 21 | This was to ensure that he or she would not be pressurized to publish things against their judgement or be got rid of in favour of an outsider who would change the paper 's political line . |
| 22 | Karrass Workshops are the most widely attended of their kind and are held in major cities worldwide . |
| 23 | It is an important example of its kind and is estimated at Dfl 250,000–350.000 ( £91,700–128,000 ; $140,000–195,000 ) . |
| 24 | The force is reported to be the largest of its kind and is expected to become the prototype for other parts of the country with high-tech industry . |
| 25 | Postgraduate students are welcome to call at the Service at any time during their course and are encouraged to take advantage of the facilities offered as early as possible . |
| 26 | Suddenly an army of civil servants were to surrender substantial proportions of their remuneration and were forced to seek , at no little expense , dispensations from — and at the discretion of — the pope , not a prospect which they would welcome . |
| 27 | Thus , Nos. 4E and 7E evidently failed their inspection and were delicensed on 11 August 1933 . |
| 28 | But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 30 | Philippa was wearing a black kerchief which covered her hair and was tied at the nape of her neck , a knee-length black T-shirt and black straw sandals . |