Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places .
2 Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’
3 Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them .
4 Two inches on my hair and I look as if I 've had my face thinned and people start speaking in hushed voices in my presence .
5 She 's supporting an unemployed Turkish waiter with my money while I sit in the dark .
6 Therefore , I shall consider it and inform you of my decision when you return to this base . ’
7 What I want to say now is that you are my mum and you feel like my mum again .
8 For example , I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin .
9 I smile at Ma and my sister as I totter towards the compost heap beyond the garden shed .
10 Such stories come creeping into my mind as I sit on set at Arsenio Hall 's Paramount studio , watching Soul II Soul rehearse .
11 For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys .
12 As I trudge my way home through the city streets The cats and the houses retreat And a thunder of hooves beats in my mind And I gallop through acres of wheat .
13 ‘ The world championships are in the forefront of my mind and I have to be patient .
14 ' I can change my mind if I want to . ’
15 Let me tell you of the images that spring to my mind when we talk about water .
16 I 'll get boozed out of my mind when I get to In Sha-la-la [ Mick 's name for In Salah ] . ’
17 PAMELA : This weights less with me than anything else you have said , for there is an end of all merit and all good behaviour on my side if I consent to your proposals , and what , sir , would the world say were you to marry your harlot ?
18 It 's my intention that they appear on my gravestone .
19 Mrs Gould who I am happy to say is quite well has been fully occupied in making drawings of the soft parts of the birds together with appropriate plants flowers berries etc. which will be introduced into my work and I trust from the fund of information I shall be enabled to add that the book will not be void of interest especially to all lovers of ornithology …
20 I get the T T G delivered to my home cos I subscribe for it and I get the business one that you do when
21 ‘ The mechanics are stripping down my engine and I need to be there . ’
22 I 've done my own cleaning ready for Christmas which I had n't the energy for in the spring and my husband and I walk about 3–4 miles every day .
23 Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’
24 She went to the sink and put some cold water on a facecloth and started mopping my head and I burst into tears .
25 To see this , look at the payoff matrix and imagine the thoughts that might go through my head as I play against you .
26 ‘ I have noticed , ’ he said softly , ‘ that you do not use my name when you speak to me . ’
27 the , this , this is just one aspect of , of my writing and I write about all sorts of things and erm , erm the shows that I do , we use two artists that 's erm , I , I 've written erm two , two poems about erm , er Darren and , and erm Stanley er you you 've heard
28 I would really like to celebrate the Communion service with the people in my parish when they ask for it .
29 I stamp my foot as I do n't want claw scrape-marks on my flesh and they convulse into defensive irate yodelling .
30 He also said that the fact that a staff member in the presidential office had been involved was " due to my carelessness and I apologize to the people for this " .
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