Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rather vague about that , so my Hon. Friend asked him more questions . |
| 2 | Ah my poor mam had us all in that one bedroom upstairs you know . |
| 3 | But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes . |
| 4 | Here are a few of my own concoctions to give you some ideas : |
| 5 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 6 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 7 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 9 | Those who depend solely on their licensed dealers to find them another Polly Peck ( probably the most spectacular penny share success ever ) are probably doomed to disappointment If they are lucky , they will be the blind led by the blind . |
| 10 | But , though there is no engagement ring yet on Jill 's finger , that look in her sparkling eyes gives us all the best possible hope . |
| 11 | One was Esther herself , who had never been accepted into what was essentially a man 's world , and who , in her desperate efforts to prove them all wrong , had made one too many a mistake . |
| 12 | Had her first husband had it any better ? |
| 13 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 14 | It was beautiful , and somehow the knowledge that she loved his home made her slam that emotional door even more ruthlessly , turning blindly from her true feelings to hate him more . |
| 15 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 16 | Thank you very much , er , conference , and indeed it gives me great pleasure to address you this morning . |
| 17 | I have n't thought of Victoria , whose sexual peccadilloes gave me such pain , for days . |
| 18 | Joanna Trollope 's latest delicious novel , The Men and the Girls ( Bloomsbury , £14.99 ) , focuses on two men , lifelong friends of sixtysomething , whose younger women infuse them both with seemingly eternal vigour . |
| 19 | His grin , his devastating grin said it all . |
| 20 | His lively personality won him many well-wishers at the time and those fans did n't forget him on his birthday . |
| 21 | And so I could not be certain whether the sight of his old home depressed him more than it inspired him . |
| 22 | Mm well we wo n't see it tom we 'll keep it another week keep it another week I 'll get my diary . |
| 23 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |
| 24 | You could , of course , have the cement , sand and gravel delivered , and hire a mixer , but you would still find it hard work shovelling it all in and out . |
| 25 | The sound of heavy boots sliding down he crumbling bank made them all glance up . |
| 26 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 27 | His green eyes said it all : ‘ You can look but do n't touch . ’ |
| 28 | Hands on hips , he stood staring down at her , and his wide grin said it all . |
| 29 | Now he still trundles out cliches about ‘ powerful expressions ’ of ‘ revolutionary worker democracy ’ , but only his wife and his closest retainers believe them any more . |
| 30 | His next words struck us all dumb . |