Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 2 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 3 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 4 | Some of my favourite music came from 1964 . ’ |
| 5 | My daily routine began with wood-cutting for fuel . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 7 | To take the latter point first , if my hon. Friend looks at many , perhaps all , of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies , he will find that they were split 50 : 50 — there was employee representation . |
| 8 | I urge my hon. Friend to keep in close touch to make sure that response times are up to the charter . |
| 9 | I ask my hon. Friend to think of any reason why detailing the savage discrimination of the MacSharry proposals and their impact on Scottish agriculture would weaken the Minister 's hand when negotiating . |
| 10 | As it happened , I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer 's bantering , and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings . |
| 11 | My second marriage collapsed in 1991 at the beginning of my last year of vocational training — and I still had dependants . |
| 12 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 13 | well it 's got my electric cable running through that fence you see |
| 14 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 15 | I still remember the thrill of my first car bought in 1953 with my 21st birthday money . |
| 16 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 17 | My particular cleaner came with two sizes of suction tube , and experiment has shown that for maximum suck the large diameter pipe must go from the cleaner to the container . |
| 18 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 19 | My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market . |
| 20 | My own soliloquy , my own trial came with that offer . |
| 21 | My final case relates to two girls who live in a hostel that manages beds for single homeless girls , many of whom come there because of family breakdown or abuse . |
| 22 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 23 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 24 | If I get the result I wanted there is consolidation rather than extension of my committee skills , but if I do not get the result I wanted then I have learned something and I form a new hypothesis about my next interjection strengthened by this new learning . |
| 25 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 26 | They 've spent their professional life dealing with general classes of person , with samples and percentages of classes , not with individuals . |
| 27 | Some cakes will be particularly attractive to younger children — for instance the colourful clown , the sheep with its woolly coat made from fluffy frosting , or the large tortoise nibbling a piece of lettuce . |
| 28 | Oxford 's green fields are being overwhelmed and its historic character lost to luxury developments , while homelessness grows . |
| 29 | Its greatest strength lies in revealing fabrics and ‘ mapping ’ compositional variation , rather than in providing direct geochemical information , wherein the greatest uncertainties exist . |
| 30 | Its walls were of thick stone blocks and bulged and its low ceiling criss-crossed with smoke-blackened oak beams . |