Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams .
2 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 .
3 ‘ 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 . ’
4 We were talking about my old friend in Wapping earlier , Michael Ryan .
5 I shall be happy to visit my hon. Friend at Basildon either before or after the general election .
6 Though my early dream of cones directly related to moulds and maintained in course of 180° rotation had to be abandoned .
7 It 's a beautiful place for any nature lover , and I did a lot of my early birdwatching in Cornwall here .
8 Being in a band was an accident for me , because I have n't found my perfect form of expression yet .
9 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 .
10 From my previous life in England only dose family connections mattered .
11 Actually I was calling to confirm my little trip with Erika tomorrow . ’
12 Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning …
13 One of my mental pictures of Mum never varies .
14 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 .
15 Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval .
16 ‘ On my first night in prison again it was n't realistic .
17 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 .
18 ‘ It 's my first time in England also . ’
19 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 .
20 And erm we sent it to well one of my other sons in Australia there and he was thrilled to bits .
21 Yes , my other points about Ryedale anyway .
22 The months rolled by and despite everything I did all my two pairs of fish ever produced were eggs which fungused .
23 She said jokingly : ‘ If I moved up here , I 'd lose my tenuous grip on reality altogether ! ’
24 I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today .
25 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 . ’
26 The Dolphin Centre has maintained its usual popularity with attendances again breaking the one million barrier .
27 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 .
28 Her sole topic of conversation nowadays was the baby and she seemed to resent the fact that Tamar was his mother .
29 But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral .
30 Its that time of year again when RUNNING Magazine offers you a comprehensive guide to over 200 models of show on the market this spring .
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