Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 convinced my enemies as well as friends .
2 To be my sword arm and my scourge , the bane of my enemies and the defender of my children . ’
3 No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun .
4 I brought him here thinking he would be an integral part of my plans but injuries have prevented that .
5 I 've done nothing but change my plans because of what happened then , and do n't you ever forget it . ’
6 I have made my plans and I must stick to them .
7 That is why there has to be the big glass and the notes in the box , not the glass alone or the notes alone , but the box , with all my preliminary notes and measurements , all my plans and blueprints , and then the glass , with the end product of all those notes visible on its surface .
8 ‘ I 'm withdrawing my plans and will not he taking legal proceedings after all .
9 The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society .
10 I know he 'll reject all my plans and ideas for the garden out of hand , just to prove a sadistic point .
11 Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’
12 And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries
13 The following had been written : ‘ I entrust to my sons that if one should die before the other leaving no children he should make over his share to his surviving brother ; but if both die childless I wish the whole estate to pass to my granddaughter Claudia . ’
14 Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire .
15 ‘ To have a go-between , one who could move freely betwixt Tower and Westminster , betwixt my sons and myself , would greatly relieve my concern for their welfare . ’
16 I 'm taking my sons and my brother to Kilimanjaro in August .
17 My sons and daughter do n't have any Italian friends at all . ’
18 erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war .
19 ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes .
20 The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine .
21 I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch .
22 But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me — pulling pulling pulling .
23 It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move .
24 Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth .
25 My ankles and knees and spine and neck no longer hurt all the time — or not all at once , anyway .
26 As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral .
27 It is over my ankles and outside in some places it is waist high .
28 They seemed quite pleasant young people , who listened intently to my greetings , my introductions and my little jokes .
29 I know that they share my views and worries .
30 Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow .
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