Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very glad that my books give you such pleasure , ’ responded Melissa with total sincerity . |
| 2 | My glance allowed me sufficient time to register an abundance of well-washed hair , a rosy cheerful face , a loose-hanging tweed coat and heavily-patterned woollen stockings . |
| 3 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 4 | My job gave me awkward hours and frequent short-notice travel both at home and abroad . |
| 5 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 6 | And he , my father reminded him last night and he said yeah he would have them by tomorrow morning . |
| 7 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 8 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 9 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 10 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
| 11 | Filings of biscuity paper wedge under my fingernails causing me real pain . |
| 12 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 13 | Meanwhile my novel brought me other letters : from dear Father D'Arcy , an old friend ; from Francis King , later to be a friend and colleague ; and from Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 14 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 15 | MY PENTAX GIVES ME PERFECT PICTURES EVEN WITHOUT FILM . |
| 16 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 17 | On account of my grandfather leaving me this house we moved here from Edmonton . |
| 18 | ‘ My son tells me one article appeared and he counted thirty-seven inaccuracies in it . |
| 19 | My son did them last night . |
| 20 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 21 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 22 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 23 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 24 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 25 | Coins rained down on to the stage , and accepting their payment caused her more embarrassment than the impromptu show she was putting on . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |
| 27 | Her Mum gives her enough money . |
| 28 | Her Mum give , her Mum gave her thirty pounds one Saturday , for nuffink right . |
| 29 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 30 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |