Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 2 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 3 | I 'm not changing my plans to accommodate you . |
| 4 | When you knew about my plans to start my own business … ? |
| 5 | He was to play the leading role in my plans to breed owls for release into the wild . |
| 6 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 7 | I wait to see how long you can control your imbecile temptation to violate my copyrights on this letter and once again untruthfully take words and phrases from it to show your ‘ powers ’ to match those boasted by your kind in the NF and the BNP , whose performances are different from yours only in that instead of using your limbs to physically assault us like they would , you have acted by wearing the ‘ civilised ’ guise of being the ‘ editor ’ of the ‘ left ’ NewSS , and have written to assail my integrity , my capacity to think , my freedom to defend and speak for my constitutionally organised members at the Stratford school . |
| 8 | After gaining the necessary permissions to enter classrooms my freedom to follow up themes and issues discussed in interviews was very great . |
| 9 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 10 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 11 | And yet I still have my guitar to strum |
| 12 | Last night we celebrated the defeat of Italy — our brigadier ordered a rum ration to all ranks in honour of the occasion — yet I ca n't help feeling just a bit sorry for the Italians , and have never found it in my heart to dislike them as I do the Germans . |
| 13 | The buildings and the scripture-readings he loved , especially its evocative music ; but he was never conscious of ‘ surrendering my heart to worship , ’ only conscious that therein was ‘ the tree of life , for all who follow the path . ’ |
| 14 | It broke my heart to leave , but my daughter said I ought to take my chance . |
| 15 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
| 16 | It broke my heart to see that little face and big eyes . ’ |
| 17 | I know he 's doing God 's work , but it will break my heart to see him leave ! ’ and she broke down in tears . |
| 18 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 19 | Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me . |
| 20 | For this alone , I may find it in my heart to forgive her . |
| 21 | Only the sightscreen manufacturers will do badly out of this idea , and I have no room in my heart to worry about them . |
| 22 | So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ? |
| 23 | The Chains of Want forbid my Heart to rise , |
| 24 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 25 | ‘ It really breaks my heart to think of Simonica having to stay there . |
| 26 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 27 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 28 | So I can colour my hair to fill in the gap . |
| 29 | I 'd like my hair to grow back |
| 30 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |