Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans also allow for an additional £30 million to be spent over the next three years on improving our school buildings , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 2 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 3 | My hair still wet from the shower , |
| 4 | My Mum also ran in the Mum and Dads race which my mum did not do too well . |
| 5 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 6 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 7 | I had a glimpse of a fair-haired girl staring wide-eyed and terrified from a tennis court , her racket held loose by her side and tennis balls scattered at her feet and , though the trees and buildings and gardens were nothing but a high-speed blur , my mind nevertheless registered with a startling clarity that the girl had been completely naked . |
| 8 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 9 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 10 | So I hobbled away , my shoulders involuntarily hunched against the thought of eyes behind me , watching . |
| 11 | I stammered out my history , my eyes occasionally wandering to a winter view of rooftops , an opaque winter sky behind his head . |
| 12 | As I indicated , colleagues , it 's my intention now to go round the regions and ask regions whether they wish to put a speaker in . |
| 13 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |
| 15 | My father takes her to and from school and my parents both help at the weekends . ’ |
| 16 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 17 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Sitaki mafi zako bwana ’ ( Do n't give me your shit mister — Swahili slang ) , as my ayah once said to a door-stepping American missionary . |
| 19 | As a small child my nose just tipped over the protective barriers . |
| 20 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 21 | My wife also works at the accountants in Shoe Lane and she believes I was elsewhere , with a client . ’ |
| 22 | What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard . |
| 23 | My father probably went over the [ Shakespeare ] plays with me when I was doing my home-work , but his taste was for directly elevating philanthropic and progressive literature . |
| 24 | My father simply drove to the nearest police station and the attackers vanished . |
| 25 | My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account , Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards . |
| 26 | My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy . |
| 27 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 28 | Henry would have you think he 's a real no-nonsense type — more the rugged Bryan Brown than a glamorous Mel Gibson — but upon entering Robert 's car , I had my chin joyfully slurped by the rising star himself . |
| 29 | My hand today comes from a duplicate pairs game played at the St Malachy 's club earlier this week . |
| 30 | My hand today comes from a duplicate pairs game played at the St Malachy 's club earlier this week . |