Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
| 2 | I 'll make my own friends if I want to . |
| 3 | Now I have my own friends and we never really talk about it . |
| 4 | Although it might appears that this unit could be used to copy into EEPROMS , this proved impractical with my own computer because it is not capable of providing the longer write pulses necessary ( typically about 10mS ) . |
| 5 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 6 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 7 | At this level the subordinate is saying ‘ I 'm helpless to solve my own problems so I need a wise person ( Parent ) like you to solve them for me . ’ |
| 8 | I rousted Thessy out of his bed with a cup of tea , then went to my own bed as he took over the wheel . |
| 9 | ‘ I want Steve to have something good to remember , and I 'd like to fulfil my own dream before it 's too late . |
| 10 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 11 | I got my own home and it ai n't got a broken window . |
| 12 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a problem which is acute in my own country and which , I am told , is beginning to afflict you here . ’ |
| 14 | I may be a layman in terms of aero-space , but I know my own country and I know military thinking . |
| 15 | I 'm still staring at the branch ; it 's like my brain 's screaming at me inside my own head and I do n't know what else it is that 's listening , except it is n't listening ; my brain 's screaming Run ! |
| 16 | My own assessment before we had the check would have been that he worked within C.N.D. because he was a committed C.N.D. member rather than working in C.N.D. in order to further the interests of the Communist Party . |
| 17 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 18 | We were originally going to do weekly measurements , but I found on my own monitoring that you wo n't get much variation . |
| 19 | ‘ The kids used to watch me working with my own tractor so I decided to make then their own version , ’ says Klaus . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't like my own company so I like to be in a show . |
| 21 | I said I know what my life is like with him , I had an injunction , plus I had my own money and I was managing better . |
| 22 | At least it felt like it was my own money and I was working for it . |
| 23 | I answered her look with as much affection in my own expression as I could muster and added , ‘ But I want to hear , my lady , tawil omrich . |
| 24 | As I write , I make the same demands upon my own text as I do , in my critical capacity , on the texts of other writers . |
| 25 | I have joined classes where I 've leapt about to Michael Jackson or thrown my pot and been surprised at the sound of my own voice when I 've paid the babysitter . |
| 26 | ‘ And one thing I can do in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ behind my own back while I keep the peace . |
| 27 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | I know that from my own experience and I can prove it by reference to an occasion when an area of big fruit trees was sprayed with lime sulphur , a winter spray . |
| 29 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 30 | I am my own mistress and I can walk out of here tomorrow if I want . |