Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know he 'll reject all my plans and ideas for the garden out of hand , just to prove a sadistic point . |
| 32 | Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’ |
| 33 | And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries |
| 34 | I begged the King so often for my freedom that at last he and his lords agreed that I need not be a prisoner any longer . |
| 35 | He lets me have my freedom and he 's everything the other boys ca n't be . |
| 36 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 37 | The following had been written : ‘ I entrust to my sons that if one should die before the other leaving no children he should make over his share to his surviving brother ; but if both die childless I wish the whole estate to pass to my granddaughter Claudia . ’ |
| 38 | Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire . |
| 39 | ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’ |
| 40 | I 'm taking my sons and my brother to Kilimanjaro in August . |
| 41 | ‘ My sons and daughter do n't have any Italian friends at all . ’ |
| 42 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 43 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 44 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 45 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 46 | But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me — pulling pulling pulling . |
| 47 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 48 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 49 | My ankles and knees and spine and neck no longer hurt all the time — or not all at once , anyway . |
| 50 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 51 | It is over my ankles and outside in some places it is waist high . |
| 52 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 53 | ‘ No , I do n't get pissed off and run to my guitar and write a song . |
| 54 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 55 | If I shift in my harness and lean nervously backwards I can see my partner creeping nearer on a wall of loosely compacted rubble , brushing and blowing the sand from the holds as he swings upwards . |
| 56 | I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope . |
| 57 | Maybe the imminence of the new technology was the moment to hang up my briefcase and say good luck to the thrusting new young generation . |
| 58 | I open my briefcase and sort through various , what ? — books and papers by colleagues , say — looking for my file of letters . |
| 59 | I 've had more fun wiping the blood of a blue-bottomed bloggert off my broadsword than watching that pile of pus ! |
| 60 | They seemed quite pleasant young people , who listened intently to my greetings , my introductions and my little jokes . |