Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To produce my foot , my each feather : |
| 2 | Ann Petty , Carlisle Grove , Bishop Auckland : It was my half day off when myself and a friend usually went into Newcastle to the pictures , but because of public mourning they were all closed . |
| 3 | It 's my half day on the , that Sunday . |
| 4 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
| 5 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 6 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 7 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 8 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 9 | he is now in direct confron competition with Darth Vader , my all time favourite villain . |
| 10 | Will I know anyone in my former life whom I know in my present one ? |
| 11 | Now , I am discarding my former life . |
| 12 | ‘ All you could think of was yourself , just expecting me to drop my former life for yours . |
| 13 | Monty , my former editor and himself a great friend of Caroline 's father , proposed the health of the Bride and Groom . |
| 14 | His father said in a statement : ‘ I have no personal knowledge of this incident from my adult son of my former marriage . ’ |
| 15 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 16 | I am going to supper with my former Port Manager colleague , , and a lifelong friend of his called , who is also retired but spend her working life dedicated to teaching and helping spastics . |
| 17 | The enterprise is run by my former TV presenter rival , Jeremy Carrad . |
| 18 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 19 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 20 | As the Member of Parliament for my former constituency , I represented the town of Troon , a very Tory town that had more millionaires per head of population than any other area in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 22 | I WOULD like your readers to know that I am aware of their letters to Sunday Life and their concern about money owing to them by my former company C H Enterprises . |
| 23 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
| 24 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When I think of my former sister-in-law agreeing to marry him , it makes me feel ill , positively ill . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 27 | I th stick to my former line I think that we 've all had a look at this , er we , I believe it 's a useful , serviceable instrument and I rest my case . |
| 28 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 29 | But in any case , my former cockiness had evaporated . |
| 30 | In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight . |