Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 2 | Q : I 'm having problems installing Quarterdeck 's QRAM on my PC and would be grateful for your advice . |
| 3 | Given the resources of both my PC and printer , I 'm surprised at these delays . |
| 4 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 5 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 6 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 7 | My sanity and my memory returned . |
| 8 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 10 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 11 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 12 | I took off my cloak and immediately began to thread the fabric through the hole . |
| 13 | And now I 'm off to pick up my cloak and pack , ready to shift before dawn . ’ |
| 14 | " Item whereas there is Sixscore pounds due unto mee by Roger Harper and Johnn Barrett Payable at Certen Dayes and tymes agreed uponn betweene us , My mynde and will ys That the Somme of Fortye pounds being a Thirdd parte of the sayd Sixscore pounds shall be and remayne to the augmentacion and increase of the wages of the Schoolemaster of Stockport for the tyme beinge , for ever , to be hadd and receaved at suche dayes and tymes as the same shall bee due , And further I do will and bequeath the sume of Tenn pounds for and towards the augmenting of the Schoolmasters wages afforesayd to make upp the sayd sume of Fortye pounds the Full sume of Fyftie pounds All the sayd Sume to be Imployed and used for the benefit of the Schoolemaster afforesayde by the Parsonn of Stockporte the Maior of Stockport and the most Auncyent Alderman thereof for the time being . |
| 15 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 16 | convinced my enemies as well as friends . |
| 17 | To be my sword arm and my scourge , the bane of my enemies and the defender of my children . ’ |
| 18 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 19 | I buy it for my whisky because . |
| 20 | in my whisky and water . |
| 21 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 22 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 23 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 24 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 25 | I brought him here thinking he would be an integral part of my plans but injuries have prevented that . |
| 26 | I 've done nothing but change my plans because of what happened then , and do n't you ever forget it . ’ |
| 27 | I have made my plans and I must stick to them . |
| 28 | That is why there has to be the big glass and the notes in the box , not the glass alone or the notes alone , but the box , with all my preliminary notes and measurements , all my plans and blueprints , and then the glass , with the end product of all those notes visible on its surface . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm withdrawing my plans and will not he taking legal proceedings after all . |
| 30 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |