Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George , wisely , did n't try to compete with guest Gary Moore and simply strummed his way through While my Guitar Gently Weeps as Moore 's Les Paul sobbed inconsolably — but by then it was all over bar the cheering . |
| 2 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 3 | She still filled her boring blue costume wonderfully , I noted — while part of my mind slowly realized that my ship 's damaged preceptors probably had kept Posi from spotting their approach . |
| 4 | But erm in the back of my mind there comes that she 's saying to me do n't get involved , do n't get involved . |
| 5 | ‘ But my sessions gradually increased and my double-session intensified systematically until my weekends have also become involved and I am now on seven days a week . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My legs slightly raised and on my left side , ’ Faye finished for him , deliberately parroting the words . |
| 7 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I know you wo n't believe me when I tell you that he doctored that fuel blend to make me look a fool , but one of the boys back in London knows ; he 's going to have my work independently checked before Jason gets home ! ’ |
| 9 | My desk now looks like it 's Christmas . |
| 10 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 11 | My group actually thought that the return of Peter Pan made a better tale than Barrie 's original . |
| 12 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 13 | Now I think if my body still moves and people enjoy it that 's OK . ’ |
| 14 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 15 | My husband always maintains that white wine tastes better when drunk outside — by which he actually means that if he is in the open air he is relaxed and therefore more capable of enjoying anything . |
| 16 | But my husband always thought that my in-laws were good to me , because they never criticised me in his presence , He had told them beforehand ‘ I know this girl , what she is like , so I do n't want to hear anything about her from you . |
| 17 | The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide . |
| 18 | My theory therefore suggests that bands of young male hominids started to hunt first , while older , dominant males , encumbered with their harems and young , continued the traditional foraging . |
| 19 | Cyclotron resonance by my theory only occurs if the hazardous frequency range lies with the exciting field . |
| 20 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 21 | My father always considered that you were as good as old Granpa Charlie and everyone knows he was the best . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We discovered time travel , but my people just sit and watch the events of the universe without getting involved . |
| 23 | Whether it was the disappointment showing on my face I shall never know , for my guide quickly added that it was a Celtic path and , perhaps , more than 4,000 years old . |
| 24 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 25 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 26 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 27 | I wrote asking if my information still applied or had some legal restrictions been imposed since the programme had been shown ? |
| 28 | They can be a bit thick at the best of times , ; you know that amphora you sent me ? well my lot only went and peed in it — I have to go now , Tony 's coming for his Osso Buco . |
| 29 | You can continue your sport the decent side of the sport without the need for the kill and and we will encourage , my motion actually encourages that , encourages the fox hunting fraternity to look at a way forward , come forward , talk to us . |
| 30 | Detestable stuff , but my Dad always insisted that we had an egg cup full , once a week . |