Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 3 | I 'm not changing my plans to accommodate you . |
| 4 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 5 | When you knew about my plans to start my own business … ? |
| 6 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 7 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 10 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 11 | It is the noise made by one of my sons playing his electric guitar . |
| 12 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 13 | Last night we celebrated the defeat of Italy — our brigadier ordered a rum ration to all ranks in honour of the occasion — yet I ca n't help feeling just a bit sorry for the Italians , and have never found it in my heart to dislike them as I do the Germans . |
| 14 | My head tells me it 's good ; my heart tells me I 'd happily never hear it again . |
| 15 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 16 | I must do what my heart tells me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My heart tells me we need look no further than him . ’ |
| 18 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 19 | I MUST N'T let my heart rule my head . |
| 20 | I know he 's doing God 's work , but it will break my heart to see him leave ! ’ and she broke down in tears . |
| 21 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 22 | For this alone , I may find it in my heart to forgive her . |
| 23 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 24 | So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ? |
| 25 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 26 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 27 | My heart misgave me . |
| 28 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 29 | Someone else has n't done my story have they ? |
| 30 | Q My problem is that I 've got very bad split ends but if I keep having my hair cut it wo n't grow . |