Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
| 2 | So out of the kindness of my heart I agreed to come in . ’ |
| 3 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
| 4 | For my part I wish to make it plain that I do not base my judgment on any reservation as to the correctness of the law long ago enunciated in Stilk v. Myrick . |
| 5 | And I was er doing my part I thought to change the world and get everybody into the union so we could get , get better conditions for , for everybody and all this , more money anyhow . |
| 6 | For my part I prefer to imagine that he made a mistake . |
| 7 | The proof of the pudding was in the eating , and in my case I 'd got the ingredients wrong . |
| 8 | In my experience I have found exactly the same ; driving is cheaper than rail , even on one 's own and on routes with special rail fares available , like Edinburgh to London . |
| 9 | I also like the area because of its prehistoric relics , abundance of wildflowers and , on a more mundane level , because in my experience it seems to get more than its fair share of decent weather . |
| 10 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 11 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 12 | ‘ It does n't say anywhere in my contract I have to make them feel good , too . ’ |
| 13 | I plead guilty , partly , but in my defence I want to return to the point I signalled earlier , that a biographical approach has more political justification if the project being undertaken is one concerned with the cultural history of a marginalized group . |
| 14 | ‘ In my boyhood we yearned to see the Poms defeated . ’ |
| 15 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 16 | I keep telling my mum she 's got herself a con-man , but she wo n't listen to me . |
| 17 | Therefore , for all my reasons I have chosen to display , I conclude that Mark Antony is a first class example of ‘ Things are not always being as they seem . ’ |
| 18 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 19 | Often in my progress I have had faint glimpses of the Absolute Truth , God , and daily the conviction is growing on me that He alone is real and all else is unreal . ’ |
| 20 | In my woodland she came to rest , and to my house she was carried into sanctuary . |
| 21 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |
| 22 | A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter . |
| 23 | Noticing I was buying a new battery for my headtorch he grinned knowing and said : ‘ Oh-oh ’ Somebody in for another Hebbert epic ? ’ |
| 24 | Hester felt a proper , my truck she sobbed has lost it . |
| 25 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 26 | To my mind we 've gone overboard on fitness . |
| 27 | Erm , under the banding system Mr Chairman , and as I say , it 's purely er to clear it in my mind we 've got residential points A and B and we have a manual system for nursing homes but the C one I 'm not sure whether should be in nursing homes or residential homes . |
| 28 | But to my mind it 's got the thing the wrong way round . |
| 29 | It worries me , because it 's there again tomorrow … in my mind I 've got a fixed routine , but I know I have n't got one really … |
| 30 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |