Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I would like to think that my ministry would appeal to a cross section of the population , that Official Unionists could come to my services and not be insulted by anything I might say . |
2 | I climbed fast for fear my fingers might freeze to the rungs . |
3 | ‘ Pity my banishment should coincide with the onset of winter . ’ |
4 | My vote will go to the least self-flagellating leadership candidate . |
5 | ‘ Maybe one of my words may grow like a seed in his heart one day . ’ |
6 | My feet will stay on the ground . ’ |
7 | I think my granny used to speak about the Clachan at Dalvaine , when there was er about five or six houses there and the that was the That was Upper Islay . |
8 | My amendment would result in a reduction in the burden on these people to the tune of 50 per cent . |
9 | ‘ Then my article will act as a welcome digestif to the turgid diet of financial news . ’ |
10 | I 'm floating up — and up — and up — I do n't know how far the roof is , I do n't know when my head will crash against the rock and my brains 'll get bashed in and I 'll be dead . ’ |
11 | My wife used to work in the Education Department , incidentally |
12 | She said that some of her council members were worried about the effect my outfit would have on the young girl athletes who were running at the meeting . |
13 | This last phrase — ‘ no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time ’ — my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly . |
14 | My father will go to the cash and carry every week , and perhaps he 'll pop into into Tesco 's or something and get a few bits and pieces , so we got a lot in the fridge , but it 's not a lot of variety . |
15 | ‘ There 's another kind of acoustic string we make , one my father used to make under the D'Arco name before he sold the company to Martin , and that 's a semi-polished acoustic string , halfway between a round-wound and a flat-wound ; a lot of the old archtop guitar players used to use them for recording . |
16 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
17 | The remainder of my paper will deal with the extreme contrast between two South American groups , the Shavante and the Piaroa , in their respective valuation of male maturity . |
18 | My search for myself was throughout the universe and this is the moment of meeting and I wish that all my life will continue in the joy of a lasting reunion . |
19 | My daughter used to go to a lovely informal music group in a house in Northfield , and I believe there was a similar group in Moseley once . |
20 | Especially as my promotion could go by the board . ’ |
21 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
22 | And my grandmother used to live on the beach there . |
23 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
26 | Of course I 'd remind you that not all drawings get to the prototype stage and not all prototypes reach the production line , whereas my design would go from a piece of paper to the factory , and from the factory I 'd receive a cardboard box a couple of months later . |
27 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |
28 | He only felt secure in his bed , which he found beautifully warm because every night my mother would place between the sheets the prete , an iron pot full of hot ashes ; it had a frame work of wood to stop the bedding catching fire . |
29 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
30 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |