Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have time to get paranoid about blood poisoning as my heart suddenly stopped beating . |
| 2 | Will my ex-husband still pay maintenance for me and the children ? |
| 3 | My mum nearly said shit yesterday , a nervous breakdown . |
| 4 | Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude . |
| 5 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 6 | Though my brothers too enjoyed shooting , they preferred hunting , and my mother , who had hunted in Ireland before she went to Abyssinia , now took it up again . |
| 7 | My parents both showed interest in my academic work , and my mother some minimal interest in the personalities of my teachers or friends , but that was as far as it went . |
| 8 | " He gave it on the condition that we cared for it and , although my husband already liked gardening , that was what started my interest " . |
| 9 | During the first half of the term , my diary scarcely mentions food , apart from the occasional comment on the revolting nature of some too-frequently presented dish . |
| 10 | Will my wife automatically get custody of our children ? |
| 11 | By December 1917 my father badly needed leave . |
| 12 | ‘ My father never had time for me . |
| 13 | To his great credit , my father never mixed school and home . |
| 14 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 15 | ‘ Get off this boat , ’ I told him , but my anger only amused Sweetman who unfolded his long thin legs from the cushioned thwart . |
| 16 | My children never wore cotton clothes , because they burn so easily . |
| 17 | ‘ Because you … and Charles … represent ordinary public opinion — my family usually ignore public opinion — and because I specially owe it to you … to both of you . |
| 18 | Minimising applications or processes is just one answer — lots of my colleagues habitually minimise Program Manager in order to relieve screen clutter , but moving between minimized apps can be a pain as well . |
| 19 | My mother still had Christmas cards from them to the end of her life . |
| 20 | At 97 , my mother still grows kidney beans , but now on a small scale . |
| 21 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 22 | San Francisco , California-based Tesseract Corp is porting its Primrose parallel processing application development environment to Pyramid Technology Corp 's MIServers , which Pyramid will market as PrimroseSMP . |
| 23 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 24 | The Motet Lord , Thou has been our Refuge , in which VW ingeniously combines Psalm 90 ( his own setting ) with the Hymn ‘ O God our help in ages past ’ ( to the tune of ‘ St Anne ’ ) to ravishing effect , should certainly satisfy those with a musical sweet tooth . |
| 25 | In this , and their inability yet to give colour , these small CRTs compare with LC TVs ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency . |
| 27 | And then , as the gate loomed up , her heart almost stopped beating . |
| 28 | Then she looked beyond the board , and her heart almost stopped beating . |
| 29 | One of the dramatic differences between the world as pictured by M. de St. Croix from Trafalgar Square in 1839 and the one in which PHOTOGRAPHY NOW takes place 150 years later is , precisely , the proliferation of photographically originated signs . |
| 30 | ENB is doing its level best to stay calm . |