Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine Fair Lady carries an advertisement in which a white woman addresses the reader : ‘ I discuss family planning with my domestic and take her to the nearest clinic . |
| 2 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 3 | Having endorsed this as a learning technique , let me make a few recommendations and observations of my own and list my personal ‘ top ten ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ That will be a little difficult , ’ he agreed politely , ‘ but I 'll do my best and pass your feelings on to the rest of the team . |
| 5 | Olazabal 's compatriot Sevvy Ballesteros , who has fallen upon hard times after 68 tournament victories worldwide , said : ‘ The US Open is not my type of golf course , but I try to do my best and see what happens . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 7 | I lack that biological instinct which makes most women want to reproduce themselves , especially when they are in their thirties and feel they might be leaving things a bit late . |
| 8 | Nails was generally asleep not long after ten , preferring to get up when the sun did , take Firelight out and clean up her stable and do his running practice before going home for breakfast . |
| 9 | She slid the cup into a pocket of her waterproof and raised her head . |
| 10 | She gives her half-laugh and tells me she does n't know how old people generally are when they get married . |
| 11 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 12 | I wanted to keep her warm and handle her as much as possible in preparation for training . |
| 13 | Before she could take in any more of the scene , a short , red-faced man bustled out from an office to her left and planted himself squarely in front of her . |
| 14 | Hal Shepherd gathered his daughter up , hugging her tight and kissing her , delighted to see her . |
| 15 | He wanted to reach out and wrap her in his arms , to hold her tight and comfort her , but he had been wrong before . |
| 16 | I brought her up , gave her a few significant experiences , got her married , made her unhappy and killed her off . |
| 17 | And without waiting for an answer he drew her closer and lowered his head to find her lips . |
| 18 | When he pulled her closer and slid his hands round her , she sucked in her breath involuntarily . |
| 19 | He considered meeting her halfway and warning her but decided that getting coffee into her grandfather had priority . |
| 20 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 21 | He did n't know whether Alice ever thought of it , or whether the trauma had erased it from her mind so that she now believed the version he had formulated , had taken the lie into her unconscious and made it her truth . |
| 22 | ‘ Whatever is it ? ’ shrieked the old lady , shaking her loose and holding her at arm 's length . |
| 23 | However , the suggestion is quite different from analysis because as what we 've seen what happens in analysis is in analysis the , the individual faces up to their inner and resolves them themselves , it 's a kind of a loner solution to use to use , to use Heather 's term . |
| 24 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |
| 25 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 26 | These could test and modify units designed at international workshops ( or by other centres ) or initiate work of their own and present it for international criticism , modification and subsequent diffusion to other countries . |
| 27 | Come to think of it you could call anyone by a name which is not their own and make them sound stupid . |
| 28 | ‘ We obviously want to continue to encourage young people to buy a home of their own and feel it makes a lot of sense . ’ |
| 29 | Discussing statements like these and saying whether they agree with them or not gives children an opportunity to consider views which conflict with their own and to modify their existing views . |
| 30 | She beat the 24-year-old woman , stripped her naked and tied her to the balcony . |