Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’ |
| 2 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 3 | My decision pleased the present-day driver , as the fare would be expensive . |
| 4 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 5 | Erm that zoning that allocation in a local plan backed by this erm er er policy in the structure plan would be enough in my judgement to enable the economic development people to actually capture the , get the elephant in the trap . |
| 6 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 7 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 8 | My eyes skip the busy road that sweeps around the head of the port and is divided by a great oval flowerbed , garishly planted . |
| 9 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 10 | It has , incidentally , materially diminished my capacity to enjoy the original symphony . |
| 11 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 12 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 13 | The Minister will not be surprised to learn that my question concerns the regulatory environment of British Steel , in which the Government hold the golden share . |
| 14 | But yesterday she said : ‘ My boss said the best thing would be to get back to work as normal and I feel better for coming in straight away . ’ |
| 15 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 16 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 17 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 18 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 19 | My constituents remember the dashing figure of Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 20 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 21 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 22 | Like the oppressed people in the working class communities throughout Britain , the people in my community suffer the same pain and the same negative imagery as our counterparts in the Third World . |
| 23 | Certainly I did not regard it as my job to defend the departmental budget just because it was the departmental budget . |
| 24 | We formed up over the Channel , and it was my job to fire the Very pistol , with pre-arranged colour flares , so all the other Lancs knew which aircraft to form up on . |
| 25 | ‘ It is also my job to protect the national side and our qualification for the World Cup finals hangs in the balance because of league structures and the problems posed by television . ’ |
| 26 | My diary records the frequent wish for ‘ interesting people and interesting places ’ . |
| 27 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 28 | My constituency has the highest level in England , Scotland and Wales with an average of 30 per cent . |
| 29 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |
| 30 | Since my appointment to chair the Working Group I had seen Mr Baker only on one occasion . |