Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't give me that stuff about children then . |
| 2 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 3 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 4 | ‘ But of course if you tell Gran about my broken shoe on Sunday there really wo n't be any need for her to know . ’ |
| 5 | We were talking about my old friend in Wapping earlier , Michael Ryan . |
| 6 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |
| 7 | I shall be happy to visit my hon. Friend at Basildon either before or after the general election . |
| 8 | Though my early dream of cones directly related to moulds and maintained in course of 180° rotation had to be abandoned . |
| 9 | It 's a beautiful place for any nature lover , and I did a lot of my early birdwatching in Cornwall here . |
| 10 | Being in a band was an accident for me , because I have n't found my perfect form of expression yet . |
| 11 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 12 | From my previous life in England only dose family connections mattered . |
| 13 | Actually I was calling to confirm my little trip with Erika tomorrow . ’ |
| 14 | Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning … |
| 15 | One of my mental pictures of Mum never varies . |
| 16 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 17 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 18 | ‘ On my first night in prison again it was n't realistic . |
| 19 | In my first week at work there occurred an extremely gory accident at the College crossing , a point where the main line of the railway crosses the motor road to Regina just east of the city . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's my first time in England also . ’ |
| 21 | A lifelong love of fashions means I have not only the nerve to try something original , but the experience to put my own version of style together . |
| 22 | And erm we sent it to well one of my other sons in Australia there and he was thrilled to bits . |
| 23 | Yes , my other points about Ryedale anyway . |
| 24 | The months rolled by and despite everything I did all my two pairs of fish ever produced were eggs which fungused . |
| 25 | She said jokingly : ‘ If I moved up here , I 'd lose my tenuous grip on reality altogether ! ’ |
| 26 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 27 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
| 28 | The Dolphin Centre has maintained its usual popularity with attendances again breaking the one million barrier . |
| 29 | Not only was he heir to the Spencer estates , he also served with distinction as a captain in the Royal Scots Greys during World War Two and , as Equerry to the Queen , he had accompanied the Queen and Prince Philip on their historic tour of Australia shortly before his marriage . |
| 30 | Her sole topic of conversation nowadays was the baby and she seemed to resent the fact that Tamar was his mother . |