Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think a lot of them were genuinely concerned , as in my case I think this person was genuinely worried about me because I 'd had , it was my third child and I I do think she was er worried about me because er you know you do n't want to keep having babies and losing them but I was n't worried about , I was worried about myself , to say I was n't worried that 's stupid , but er we just hoped and hoped and kept hoping . |
| 2 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 3 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 4 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 5 | Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio . |
| 6 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 7 | The , my eye I got some drops from the chemist cos my eye was bad . |
| 8 | Oh , my goodness he needs some exercise does n't he ? |
| 9 | On my way back to my room I had another look into Toby 's . |
| 10 | From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour , with here and there some lights twinkling through it . ’ |
| 11 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 12 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 13 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 14 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 15 | They they had er they had hamme They had Again y Even in my day you had some hand squads , as they were called , who would have their own er rivet hammers you know , and hand hammers . |
| 16 | Brampton Theatre asked me how much it was going to cost , so I , off the top of my head I said twenty pounds |
| 17 | Not my breakfast , my drink I had this morning |
| 18 | ‘ I am too small for all the steadfast love ’ ( that is a literal translation of the Hebrew , which is much more striking than our English versions ) ‘ and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan ; and now I have become two companies . ’ |
| 19 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 20 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 21 | no , no , my Lord I have three applications to make in the light of the evidence given by Mr yesterday and this witness today , er the first is this in terms of this witnesses evidence , I do n't know whether your Lordship appreciated it , but I certainly did in terms of evidence , that in cases of some brochures there were a number of editions , in other words first , second and maybe third edition |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’ |
| 23 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 24 | Collecting my bags I noted one channel for Australians and New Zealanders , another for all others . |
| 25 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 26 | It was years later that my cousin who dies some years ago , he was ninety two . |
| 27 | On my arrival I had another tiff with Frank Dick . |
| 28 | Yet there are other aspects of my world which exercise similar constraints over my behaviour . |
| 29 | No , I 'm trying Can everyone be careful not to sit on my coat I have another walkman in my pocket . |
| 30 | On my farm I use three methods ; most of my bulk oats are stored in a ferrocement silo which is completely weather- and vermin-proof . |