Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 2 | As far as drama is concerned , it is claimed that its only truly fictional element lies in the relationship between the actors on the stage and their audience . |
| 3 | And Meiko reminds us that its next-generation massively parallel system ( UX No 401 ) , uses no transputers — the UK , Bristol-based research and development operation , has designed its own communications processor which will operate alongside the Fujitsu Ltd vector processor and Texas Instruments Inc 's Viking Sparc . |
| 4 | It was the popularity of the show rather than herself she had in mind , although her own extraordinarily sexy form in those days could just have had something to do with it . |
| 5 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 6 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 7 | Moreover , American firms are reluctant to buy from the Japanese because , as one executive put it , ’ we will never be any more than their second most important customer ’ . |
| 8 | This bed , however , was a splendid one , with brass head and foot ; much classier than her own rather functional affair . |
| 9 | Citrine recognised , moreover , that his own highly visible profile could sometimes be counterproductive . |
| 10 | More than this , it not only exemplifies but portrays artistic creativity in a stunning exposure of the human mind and its elaborate yet primal mechanism of imagination . |
| 11 | The conversation with Rosie had left him with the impression Rain was carrying the keys , and her own deliberately misleading answer that evening had confirmed it . |
| 12 | This , coupled with the Polymorphine and her own apparently chameleonic talent — perhaps potentiated by the syn-skin , though of this aspect Jaq was truly unsure — enabled her to undergo a wilder , faster transformation than fellow Assassins : a radical transmutation of her body into , at least , Stealer semblance . |
| 13 | He glared at them , incensed by the immorality they carried so lightly , their ignorance of sin , and his own too exact awareness of it . |
| 14 | Following the example of George Müller [ q.v. ] , and his own highly original survival training in Hull , he lived by the principles of faith and prayer on which he later built his mission : never appealing for funds except to God , and administering all gifts with scrupulous stewardship . |
| 15 | He rolled onto the bed beside her , and his own tightly curbed control began to weaken as he slipped a hand over one of her breasts and bent his head to kiss the other . |
| 16 | The younger animals sometimes have trouble navigating ( nor surprising , if you 're walking backwards and your own rather large bottom is blocking your view ) , and frequently get into quite a pickle , backing into fences , down ledges or into trees ! |
| 17 | The glutei are worked in squats , lunges and dead lifts , but one other very simple exercise is straight leg kicks to the rear . |