Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I would that you were with us to hear me play the piano which I do every day and Papa declares I make good progress .
2 She said , I know you and you can not sing , I said , that 's nothing , you should hear me play the pianer . ’
3 I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on .
4 ‘ Good people , you know , they give me money every four weeks . ’
5 If my parents had n't sent me money every week , I could n't have survived . ’
6 Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home .
7 ( 149 ) How could he exert authority over them — make them toe the line , as he had to — if he knuckled under …
8 Tony sends them money every month . ’
9 Well , I nearly fell off , that 's all , and it gave me foot a bit of a twinge .
10 We get some of our funding from the Home Office , but we certainly do n't cost them £1,000 a week — nowhere near . ’
11 He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now .
12 For them Friday the 13th had come a day early .
13 ‘ One of the nurses has been coming in to give me injections every day .
14 I needed a strong man to help me rule the country .
15 Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories .
16 Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’
17 Can you help me trace the history of my Land Rover ?
18 Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening .
19 Q : I bought my PC a month ago , so I do n't know very much about it yet .
20 ‘ I want to give the people who use my houses a rare and primitive relationship with the raw forces of nature .
21 ‘ It makes my plans a great deal easier anyway . ’
22 Phillis played it all the time : for old times sake wo n't you give my heart a break ?
23 God has placed on my heart a real desire to be involved in training , encouraging and equipping Christians to know their God intimately as a Father , and to share my faith in evangelism , taking the Gospel to the people .
24 My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep . ’
25 Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen .
26 Jessie Young fired my imagination with her tales of warfare , politics and terror at Berwick , and fanned in my heart the first flames of a lifelong fascination with Scotland 's history .
27 All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " .
28 One eye yet looks on thee , But with my heart the other eye doth see .
29 ‘ Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows : … ’
30 ‘ Listen to what happened to me , ’ I said , and I told my story a third time .
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