Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 2 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 3 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 4 | My sanity and my memory returned . |
| 5 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 7 | Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’ |
| 8 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 9 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 10 | I have made my plans and I must stick to them . |
| 11 | And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries |
| 12 | He lets me have my freedom and he 's everything the other boys ca n't be . |
| 13 | ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope . |
| 14 | ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm taking my sons and my brother to Kilimanjaro in August . |
| 16 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 18 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 19 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 20 | They seemed quite pleasant young people , who listened intently to my greetings , my introductions and my little jokes . |
| 21 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 22 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 23 | ‘ It breaks my heart that his career has been ruined . |
| 24 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 26 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 27 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 28 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 29 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 30 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |