Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 2 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 3 | I wrapped myself in a beach robe and spread my wet towels out on the winter hedge to dry . |
| 4 | The vision of suicide has now subsided , because I can no longer see my broken body clearly on the dark pavement below . |
| 5 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 6 | I even got my old room back in the Goethestrasse . ’ |
| 7 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 8 | I carried my empty mug out to the sink , then stood in the doorway and regarded them . |
| 9 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 10 | And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’ |
| 11 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 12 | I put my left hand up on the trailer to jump on and that was it . |
| 13 | Help me get rid of this rabble that is troubling my little cousin there in the wooden fortress ! " |
| 14 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 15 | I am immensely kindly supported in my lonely periods here by a whole host of interesting and talented friends — nearly all of whom are John 's age or nearer yours as it so happens . |
| 16 | It 's Dundee and they 've asked me to transfer my medical records up to the local G P up there . |
| 17 | Without a second 's thought I swung my medical case straight into the face of one of the thumpers . |
| 18 | It meets my fundamental requirements all along the line . |
| 19 | It was my one night off of the week , and a lot of thought went into how I spent it . |
| 20 | My first visit alone to a Saturday matinee at the Queens , just off the docks in Whitehaven , next to the Quay Street Roman Catholic chapel and infant school I attended . |
| 21 | I 'm heading for Oxford , and this is my first time away from the States . |
| 22 | ‘ The rich trash pay the bills , Mr Breakspear , which lets me give my spare time away to the poor trash . ’ |
| 23 | I sent my 14-year-old son out of the room . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 25 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 26 | I made my own way out of the station . |
| 27 | That is , in every case I will first make up my own mind independently of the ‘ authority 's ’ verdict , and then , in those cases in which my judgment differs from its , I will add a certain weight to the solution favoured by it , on the ground that it , the authority , knows better than I. This procedure will reverse my independent judgment in a certain proportion of the cases . |
| 28 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 29 | But Granddad Jack er put my red tractor away in the dump and it got smashed , smashed up by a digger . |
| 30 | I plugged my naked feet in between the empty seats as tears rolled down my cheeks . |