Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so scary coming you know all them years staying at home you lose all your confidence and it 's a very very good way and I recommend all women to do that who are like me children and have been home that long . |
| 2 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 3 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 4 | To hear Mario talk about him , Brawner was one of those woolly American health freaks : suffering from chronic asthma he spent half his time talking about pollen counts and his symptoms . |
| 5 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 6 | Each morning she opened all her luggage , looked at the shirts and dresses and pairs of trousers , felt a moment 's regret for a favourite red silk blouse , before choosing either the cotton shorts and the yellow tee shirt or the denim shorts and the pink top . |
| 7 | The male does nothing to feed them and from the start they find all their food for themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ They do n't cost British industry or taxpayers a thing , but of course they take all their expertise abroad . |
| 9 | But plasterwork was the one craft he continued all his life . |
| 10 | This was a story he told all his life ; it was just the first of many miracles with which he believed he was blessed . |
| 11 | For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , for one thing he did all our framing and there 's quite a lot of that , but he painted too . ’ |
| 13 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 14 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 15 | That year we took all our Camping Gear on the train with us instead of hiring a lorry . |
| 16 | My mother 's home was an ordinary set up and every holiday we spent half our holiday with our mother so we were in an environment of relative normality for much of our time . ’ |
| 17 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
| 18 | A lieutenant filing past with seventy-five mud-stained survivors of the decimated 2nd Zouaves noted that the new general was unable to hold back his tears ; it was a detail he remembered all his life . |
| 19 | Only this time it covered half his back . ’ |
| 20 | As the child of a drunkard father and a hysterical over-possessive mother he suffered all his life from sadistic impulses , guilt , and irrational fears . |