Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My attempts to stop their illegal activities were partly responsible for my sacking . " |
| 32 | Surely all this frost must be owing to the want of fire in my attempts to thaw it . |
| 33 | Someone moved me out , sooner or later , and it was probably just as well , for my attempts to find anyone to talk to had not prospered . |
| 34 | Clean my teeth brush my hair |
| 35 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 36 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear fumed : ‘ My defenders need their bottoms kicked for both of their goals . ’ |
| 37 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 38 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 39 | I thought the newt or the Knifefish might be eating the fish , but one of my books says they are community fish , and another says they are not . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm very glad that my books give you such pleasure , ’ responded Melissa with total sincerity . |
| 41 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 42 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 43 | ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’ |
| 44 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 45 | But I 'm desperate to go to college , I mean I love my kids and my kids get everything they need , but I ca n't go , it 's holding me back , I ca n't get my two into the creche . |
| 46 | But that wo n't be any consolation on Christmas morning when my kids empty their stockings and find no trace of the Tracys . |
| 47 | ‘ I want my kids to know their grandparents , aunts and uncles and I want to keep them English . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I want my kids to know their grandparents , aunts and uncles and I want to keep them English . ’ |
| 49 | My kids have plenty of friends , and I ca n't tell one from another , or remember their names . |
| 50 | Bolton , who hoped to marry Nicolette as soon as she divorces co-star Harry Hamlin , says : ‘ My fans love my hair — it 's part of my image . |
| 51 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
| 52 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 53 | ‘ When I go to my clients to collect I always ask if they have any hand-knitted woollen garments they do n't need , and if I 'm lucky they give me some . |
| 54 | My screams woke me . |
| 55 | mm , mm my shoulders hurting me |
| 56 | My earholes ache my head is sore |
| 57 | Do n't ladder my tights thank you . |
| 58 | ‘ Then perhaps my eyes deceived me ? |
| 59 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 60 | Texas 's on-board video circuitry is excellent for vanilla VGA and for all my eyes tell me , I could be hacking away at the Hyundai . |