Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I was on my way down at three o'clock in the strange light of an ominous red dawn , back through a sleeping Fort William and on board for breakfast , weary but elated with my stolen night on the roof of Britain . |
2 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
3 | I left the house at quarter to seven in my working boots with my pieces in my pocket . |
4 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
5 | During the debate , the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) referred , not unkindly , to my junior position in the Government . |
6 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
7 | From somewhere in the capital , by our intrepid reporter : The dog dirt injected into my pulsing thighs by a beautiful buck-naked half-robot half-Samoan woman was finally starting to take effect . |
8 | The final effect is perversely exotic and I feel my usual pang of jealousy . |
9 | My usual state of mind is ‘ what am I dying of this week . ’ |
10 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
11 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
12 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
13 | Also , I employed my usual technique of talking a quick walk up and down the field in parallel lines and with my detector switched on . |
14 | In accordance with my usual run of luck , I climbed up into thick mist , and being too lazy and smug to take a bearing I followed what seemed to be a well-worn path heading in the right direction for Beinn Dorain . |
15 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
16 | My usual response to being addressed in German was to reply ( in Russian ) ‘ Ya nye Nyemyets ’ ( ‘ I 'm not a German ’ ) which confused them since I clearly was not Russian . |
17 | We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast . |
18 | The stairs were my usual route to the ‘ hell-hole ’ in which I lived and walking up them I had to dodge numerous heaps of ‘ gunk ’ . |
19 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
20 | There would be no sense in trying to use plants , as Uaru are voracious consumers of vegetation ; and I would follow my usual practice of painting the outside of the back and ends of the tank black — I normally use blackboard paint . |
21 | My usual greeting from the cook from his kitchen on one side of the small restaurant . |
22 | I was cowering in my usual corner in Boots ' chemist 's shop in Scarborough , where I had developed the habit of a weekly weigh-in to keep a morbid eye on my progressive emaciation . |
23 | Just my usual sort of luck . |
24 | It 's very striking , but not my usual sort of thing . |
25 | ‘ And I wo n't even take my usual commission on that , so you 'll get to keep it all , and remember the agreed price is just a guaranteed minimum and there 's always a tip . |
26 | My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
27 | I am not going to make my usual complaint about words not in my dictionary , for this novel seems to demand ‘ hard ’ words . |
28 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
29 | I spend most of my professional life in similar environments . |
30 | ‘ A vacancy having occurred in the medical department of the Infirmary at Bedford in consequence of the resignation of Dr. Yates ( sic ) I have been induced to turn my professional views towards that place . |