Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 3 | In one of my books I gave more information than was needed to solve a particular problem . |
| 4 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 5 | The , my eye I got some drops from the chemist cos my eye was bad . |
| 6 | On my way back to my room I had another look into Toby 's . |
| 7 | From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour , with here and there some lights twinkling through it . ’ |
| 8 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 9 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 10 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 11 | They they had er they had hamme They had Again y Even in my day you had some hand squads , as they were called , who would have their own er rivet hammers you know , and hand hammers . |
| 12 | Brampton Theatre asked me how much it was going to cost , so I , off the top of my head I said twenty pounds |
| 13 | Not my breakfast , my drink I had this morning |
| 14 | ‘ I am too small for all the steadfast love ’ ( that is a literal translation of the Hebrew , which is much more striking than our English versions ) ‘ and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant , for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan ; and now I have become two companies . ’ |
| 15 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 16 | Collecting my bags I noted one channel for Australians and New Zealanders , another for all others . |
| 17 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 18 | On my arrival I had another tiff with Frank Dick . |
| 19 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 21 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 22 | When she put her hand to her hair she felt small twigs and she was hastily removing them when a car slid to a halt beside her . |
| 23 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
| 24 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 25 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw angry movement . |
| 27 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 28 | Early in her career she undertook collaborative research with William Bateson [ q.v. ] on plant-breeding experiments on Biscutella laevigata , the work involving a study of what came to be known as dominant and recessive characters . |
| 29 | It is a measure of Edward 's desperation that by its terms he surrendered any claims which Englishmen had upon Scottish lands and thus alienated further support among his magnates . |
| 30 | In the anti-poll tax struggle , nearly 2,000 groups emerged , and at its peak we had 25 groups in Coventry . |