Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't think they would actually but my , my sons are into , to trade you know . |
| 2 | My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big . |
| 3 | Sometimes my views are at variance with the institution |
| 4 | But I told you once what my views were on marriage . |
| 5 | However , although most of my patterns are for single-bed machines , I am becoming more and more interested again in playing with double jacquard . |
| 6 | ‘ My clubs are in good and capable hands , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The laundered clothes had fallen every which way and my cases were in a jumbled heap in the back , but we did n't stop . |
| 8 | Once we went on screen , some of my programmes were among the serious early successes , including Keating , and in the next summer , Janis Robinson and The Wine Programme . |
| 9 | All my womenfolk are at least six inches taller and a few sizes bigger than you . ’ |
| 10 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 11 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
| 12 | If my kids was over here I 'd have to flog something |
| 13 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 14 | My eyes are on the black girl sitting on the floor , slumped against the wall , her eyes closed . |
| 15 | My eyes are without light , except for the glass of the day 's methadone . |
| 16 | And all the time , when my eyes were on him , I desired him . |
| 17 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 18 | I could see her now that my eyes were in the shadow of a branch . |
| 19 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 20 | I was a stocky baby with good bone , but perhaps my ears were on the large side — but then so were Clark Gable 's and he did n't do so bad . |
| 21 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 22 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 23 | My presents were in the cupboard … they 've all gone ! ’ |
| 24 | For some reason I am panting , my heart is pounding , my fingers tingle , and my legs … my legs are like cool jelly … |
| 25 | But my legs My legs are like jelly , my body 's like rubber , you know . |
| 26 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 27 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 28 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 29 | She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ Most of my monuments are to the victims of Fascism , to the Partisan movements . |