Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can I do when there exists no object , no stolen thing at which to point and say , She 's taken my this or that ? |
| 2 | Despite my many and varied duties I have quite a lot of free time and this is where the ritual sets in . |
| 3 | I had to give up my All or Nothing scenario , in which my child either remains completely untouched by drugs or ends her short life with a needle in her arm . |
| 4 | It 's ju it 's melting my more than it is yours . |
| 5 | I was thinking of Robins ' house and then my own before I left home ; his mother making a sailor suit , my mother forever — in retrospect , anyway — making patchwork quilts . |
| 6 | ‘ I managed on my own before you came along , madam , ’ Josie said , not really offended but acting the part . |
| 7 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 8 | Wartime recollections are thus mostly from the ‘ fun ’ side of'war work' ; bicycling round as College Messenger ; working in the Radcliffe laundry on my own after the staff had gone , with no sound but the crickets , and the smell of damp clean sheets and steam ; walking into a lamp-post in the blackout ; no church bells … |
| 9 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 10 | I have worked with leaders whose style is so totally different to my own that I have found it incomprehensible that they achieve results , but nevertheless they do . |
| 11 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 12 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 13 | ‘ Lewis , ’ Hari said in exasperation , ‘ please give me credit for some sense , how do you think I 've survived on my own since my father died ? |
| 14 | I would like a home of my own but I have special requirements . |
| 15 | The fact , though , that I discovered it not in any yellowing vanity book of my own but among the vast volumes of newspaper clippings maintained by Dick Crossman was marginally encouraging . |
| 16 | I doubt if Ken 's position was much different from my own but he must speak for himself . |
| 17 | I 'll bring him up as my own but he 's keeping his own father 's name . ’ |
| 18 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm on my own but I like space . |
| 20 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 21 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 22 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 23 | I should like to go on my own but I do see that the gig would be a little draughty at night in evening dress . |
| 24 | Mr Dods , of Coatham House Farm , Coatham Mundeville , said : ‘ When I was young I would barely get on a bus on my own but I got so much out of Young Farmers . |
| 25 | Ideally I would like a free house of my own but I have got nowhere to go . |
| 26 | Looking at cos erm I tend to use a lot of paper particularly if it 's yours it 's usually my own but never mind . |
| 27 | erm it does n't bother me in the slightest because I know that I would prefer maybe to be on my own than to be restricted by someone . |
| 28 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 29 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 30 | It 's not that I 've come on my own because it 's something that is seen as just my problem , because as I said , Tom does n't seem that interested either . |