Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not investigating the murder of Miss Beatrix Abberley , but I shall certainly pass on my tentative conclusions to the Sussex Police . |
| 2 | Putting on my wet clothes , I moved out of the hut . |
| 3 | At seven-thirty next morning , I put on my running shoes and green army jeans and began jogging the eighteen miles to Reggane . |
| 4 | That much perfume I 've put on my cold sores , . |
| 5 | ‘ I have made very clear my anti-Fascist convictions . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect he cursed me when he cursed Pat , only I was so healthy the effect was delayed , or perhaps my rotten paintings were the effect , and I only see it now . |
| 7 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
| 8 | ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . ) |
| 9 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 10 | I had packed my case in a state of some excitement , taking only my best clothes with me . |
| 11 | Only my slippered footsteps on the stairs , the tiles . |
| 12 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 13 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 14 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
| 15 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 16 | I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night . |
| 17 | So my two boys and I took it prisoner . ’ |
| 18 | So my two days are the tenth |
| 19 | Perhaps her very strengths , her enthusiasm and drive for so many causes , led to inadequate public recognition of her work . |
| 20 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 21 | She seemed to see a distant future in which she and Tom were together in their own home , a house where music was made , and with perhaps their own children . |
| 22 | The level of youth unemployment in an area may reflect the characteristics either of the area itself ( eg the absence of expanding industry ) or of the young people who live there ( eg their educational qualifications ) , or some combination of the two . |
| 23 | Suddenly her quick ears caught the sound of voices . |
| 24 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 25 | By introducing a per capita tax , it was the government 's aim to draw every adult 's attention to exactly how much their local services were costing and to encourage them to assess whether they were receiving value for money . |
| 26 | The chilling pictures of tiny James Bulger being led away to a brutal death have touched millions , not just because of the tragedy that befell a little boy but because they have made people realise how much their own lives have become defiled by fear of crime . |
| 27 | There were three brothers , Jacob , Phillip and John , who were very much their own men and who would stick to a viewpoint through thick and thin . |
| 28 | The family will have to decide on how much its teenage members will be allowed to spend , and how much discretion they have in making their own choice of clothes , records , holidays or motor cycles . |
| 29 | Final Film 's managing director , Peter Stevens predicts that by bringing together their allied skills , technology , advice and consultancy they will offer a service , ‘ second to none ’ . |
| 30 | One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies . |