Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 3 | During the debate , the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) referred , not unkindly , to my junior position in the Government . |
| 4 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
| 5 | The final effect is perversely exotic and I feel my usual pang of jealousy . |
| 6 | My usual state of mind is ‘ what am I dying of this week . ’ |
| 7 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My usual greeting from the cook from his kitchen on one side of the small restaurant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Just my usual sort of luck . |
| 20 | It 's very striking , but not my usual sort of thing . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
| 23 | I am not going to make my usual complaint about words not in my dictionary , for this novel seems to demand ‘ hard ’ words . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I spend most of my professional life in similar environments . |
| 26 | On the basis of my professional acquaintance with some of the workers involved in the Kent and later Darlington projects , I can say that this appeared to be the result , and that there were real incentives for the workers to work in this way . |
| 27 | In all my professional experience of giving support to troubled marriages , I have never met any couple who were not able to make considerable strides forward if both were genuinely willing to give attention , to the issues underlying their discomfort and conflict and make the changes necessary for health and growth . |
| 28 | As I pondered my professional future with the company in the late Sixties , the self doubts did n't go away easily . |
| 29 | ‘ I could not have started my professional career without their help , ’ said Payne . |
| 30 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |