Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ .
2 Suffice to say , I was in street clothing at the time , looking , I 'd thought , the right if not the accurate side of forty , and Linal Haft , who plays my son , is three years older than I am .
3 This heavy emptiness afflates my heart .
4 She sort of ruffles my hair and goes out .
5 There goes my thunder . ’
6 Oh there goes my dad .
7 ( There goes my chaplain again , squirming on his stool .
8 [ Oh , dear , there goes my chaplain again , tut-tutting and shaking his noddle !
9 [ Ah , there goes my chaplain again , jumping up and down on his stool .
10 So bang goes my tactic of inventing the so-called ‘ Maidstone ’ scene .
11 ( Ah , there goes my clerk , the clever little fool : ‘ You 're no better than Henry VIII ! ’ he cries .
12 [ Now there goes my clerk again , protesting as if he was as chaste as the driven snow .
13 on his face and he 's going oh I 've got , he says I ca n't he 's going no no my face is stinging and he goes my face hurts , his face was red like , he goes it hurts , it 's stinging and he 's rubbing and everything and he goes oh it hurts , it hurts and laughing at him .
14 My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’
15 There goes my view of the proceedings .
16 Soon goes my darling .
17 To Victoria Roberts , a young full-time party worker from London , they were the only two in serious contention and she was backing Mr Heseltine : ‘ Mrs Thatcher is a strong leader , and we will need a moderate Tory who will be equally strong — there goes my career . ’
18 Many different types on the market , but when you actually start to look into them , erm , they reveal a few things , you can see by this one it 's a fairly old one , but it is for for demo purposes only , this is one by Polycell , it 's battery operated in a plastic cases and it 's handy because it 's got a torch but when you actually put the alarm on it goes my gadget 's not working really .
19 In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’
20 Now Nichols 's mother could say , ‘ There goes my son the movie director . ’
21 Back and forth goes my hand , over the softness of my son 's forehead and up into the softness of his hair .
22 No one doubts my opposition and total opposition to violence . ’
23 I have my man and a bent old crone from the village who drinks my whisky which she thinks I do n't notice .
24 I remember that miracle , so easy to forget , that separates my life from the fates of the suburban furies .
25 You can put them on the and now it stings my hand cos I cos
26 It drives my wife crazy , but I love doing nothing .
27 His fist crunches into my left cheek and drives my head against the ground .
28 Some kind of flicker crosses my face .
29 I was talking to my girls honestly say , it never crosses my mind
30 On the lacrosse pitches my behaviour took a similar turn .
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