Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in my case , I have got buried away in the depths of here somewhere my tetanus vaccine card . |
| 2 | ‘ Unhand my wife , villain ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's mostly my gardener I have to thank for that ’ , said the doctor modestly , ‘ but , yes , I do take an interest . |
| 4 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 5 | And it was mostly my fault that this happened . |
| 6 | But there is a sparkle of gentle morning sun , and slowly my optimism unfurls . |
| 7 | But slowly my madness left me , and my health began to return . |
| 8 | Eventually my case was supported and the tutor asked to resign . |
| 9 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 10 | I do n't know how long I was sitting there , but eventually my dad came back and sat down in his chair opposite me . |
| 11 | Eventually my husband and the house officer managed ( with great determination and much shouting ) to persuade him that if it was absolutely necessary to examine me internally the house officer would do so . |
| 12 | But I knew I was stalled personally and that eventually my career would stall . ’ |
| 13 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 14 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 15 | Eventually my father lost inspiration with the Clough/Armfield/Stein/Adamson era , but not before I had a chance to see Leeds beat Anderlect ( 3–0 in the fog ) followed by Barcelona ( Cruyft , Neeskens , etc. 2–1 for the aging ex-Revie team to make their way to Paris in 1975 . |
| 16 | In any case — thank God — eventually my period came and I knew I was n't pregnant . |
| 17 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 18 | I had never before consciously thought about my kidney — or rather my kidneys — hardly realising that I had any . |
| 19 | When someone protests at his callousness he says ‘ Would you rather my hand shook ? ’ . |
| 20 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 21 | Everything affects my senses and thereby my soul ; nothing my mind , and thereby my soul . |
| 22 | Everything affects my senses and thereby my soul ; nothing my mind , and thereby my soul . |
| 23 | ‘ The pushchair and all its added extras was another major expense , but luckily my parents treated me to it . |
| 24 | ‘ But luckily my saviour , Larry , was on hand to help me . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , well , luckily my section manager is a forty-six year old woman who is erm , section like that , at the bottom of the copy of the report . |
| 26 | ‘ Luckily my visitor was a Communist , so he 's not superstitious about these things . |
| 27 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 28 | Luckily my audience does n't make that restriction . ’ |
| 29 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 30 | Luckily my mother was not seriously hurt , but the woman responsible has not felt the need to enquire how my mother is . |