Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contract ran until two weeks before my son Adam s Barmitzvah and we planned to spend Christmas in Massachusetts then drive down to New Haven to begin re-rehearsing for our American opening at the Long Wharf Theatre . |
| 2 | As a result of the Priority Japan campaign , which my Department launched with British industry , British exports to Japan have risen by no less than 80 per cent . |
| 3 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 4 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 5 | All my research pointed in one direction : psoriatic arthropophy . |
| 6 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 7 | My cleverness consisted of verbal fluency and , more importantly , the concomitant skill of literacy . |
| 8 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 9 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel proud that my father came from this city , ’ she said slowly . |
| 11 | My father died among old sewing machines , |
| 12 | The pity of it was , not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense . |
| 13 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 14 | What my father felt about this conjunction I can only guess . |
| 15 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 16 | You remember , how once in my self-unconfidence , I asked you to take care of me until my age settled into true understanding of love ? |
| 17 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 18 | Erm , both erm experts are to give evidence before and my Lord included in this bundle with their reports are the documents to which either one or both of these experts have in guard when preparing their reports . |
| 19 | My breath came in little whines , like a dog dreaming . |
| 20 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 21 | My mirage shimmered with female limbs and foliated cunt . |
| 22 | the B eleven O six , a consequence of this County Council 's lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight and that does have some evidence to support that theory and paragraph two point five in my re report , sorry two point three not two point five , two point three in my report referred to that thing . |
| 23 | My school vied with eight grammar schools and produced results better than any of them — and for many more children . |
| 24 | My son took to this dormitory life with all the fervour of a new convert — hoarding food ( it tastes better after lights out ) ; waking at dawn to pull on whoever 's clothes came to hand . |
| 25 | My thirst for real travel was to have its very modest beginnings on the railways of the Midlands when I was at B.P. My journeying consisted of little trips to neighbouring towns within a radius of fifty miles north , south , east and west of Bletchley . |
| 26 | My mother went to that hospital for … for minor surgery and she died and … suddenly , just being there , it all came rushing back … ’ |
| 27 | My mother said with patient scorn , ‘ Speaking of Derek , we 'd better ring him and make sure he has n't forgotten about the wedding . ’ |
| 28 | But if my mother moved to another house see she could n't afford to refurnish |
| 29 | Sometimes the look would come when my mother broke into wild extravagance , such as ordering dozens of hot cross buns on Good Friday . |
| 30 | This exhibition , the first of its kind devoted to Irish art , will chart the development of modern painting in Ireland from 1880 until 1950 . |