Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 2 | I mean it came out well I thought , it came out very well , considering it was , you know , different process , and it certainly does the job and I still have n't got my damn postcards have I ? |
| 3 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 4 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 5 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 6 | My extended senses told me that it was vast . |
| 7 | On the death of Pope Pius XII he wrote : ‘ One of my favourite phrases brings me great comfort : we are not on earth as museum-keepers , but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future ’ ( Capovilla , 1978a , p. 481 ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , many of my hon. Friends find it frustrating that regional issues are seldom debated in the House . |
| 9 | Could it possibly be mere chance , I asked myself , that this manna from God knew where just happened to be my absolute favourites bar none ? |
| 10 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 11 | A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR . |
| 12 | Between them , my new-found friends told me the story . |
| 13 | ‘ And how are my little chickens behaving themselves ? ’ |
| 14 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 15 | My separatist friends said I was selling out , and taking on the role of mother was just doing what the patriarchy had trained me for . |
| 16 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 17 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 18 | ‘ My hungry Chickens lose their Meat for you : |
| 19 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 20 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 22 | P.C. Well , Sir , if I have neglected my duty in the past , why have n't my superior officers done their duty and made a defaulter of me . |
| 23 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 25 | All my fellow passengers feel it . |
| 26 | ‘ My close friends call me Theda . ’ |
| 27 | My sharp teeth sink themselves into its nose . |
| 28 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 29 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 30 | Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting ! |