Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good diet is all my pairs require to keep breeding regularly ; a top name flake , supplemented with various live foods , according to season . |
| 2 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 3 | Swift cursed 280 years ago , ‘ May my enemies live here in summer ! ’ ) |
| 4 | And as he was about to depart he looked back upon his own home , and when he saw his hall deserted , the household chests unfastened , the doors open , no cloaks hanging up , no seats in the porch , no hawks upon the perches , the tears came into his eyes , and he said , My enemies have done this … |
| 5 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 6 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 7 | I 'm not changing my plans to accommodate you . |
| 8 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |
| 10 | I 'll repair it as a favour if my plans go through . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is the one thing that could make my plans go wrong . ’ |
| 12 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 13 | When you knew about my plans to start my own business … ? |
| 14 | He was to play the leading role in my plans to breed owls for release into the wild . |
| 15 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 16 | My plans have been well laid , he wrote . |
| 17 | ‘ My plans have n't changed . |
| 18 | In his will , written in his own hand , he donated some of his books to Oxford University and bequeathed to his servant , Thomas Painter , ‘ all my books and papers of Arithmetic and Geometry in English and all my copies written and printed and all mine Instruments of Geometry ’ . |
| 19 | But they were good teachers and well respected , a fact which I have heard my sons repeat often . |
| 20 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 21 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 22 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 23 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 24 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My sons came down to help . |
| 26 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 27 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 28 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 29 | My name 's and my sons get called Doughnuts so I get called Doughnut . |
| 30 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |