Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , as I sat in my cabin moodily pouring another Freezobalm , I was facing a good chance of losing my valuable reputation as an interplanetary courier . |
| 2 | My mum just has black coffee okay ? , got sugar in , any one , my mum can have the one with Brian written on it though |
| 3 | My mum never took any board but now I 've got this job I 'll have to start paying her . |
| 4 | Partly for Clare 's sake , but mostly for my own satisfaction , I decided to do my level best to break that man . |
| 5 | My parents both have well-paid jobs but without selling their house they could not afford such a sum , and I doubt if many people could . |
| 6 | My article closely followed that briefing : expatriate advisers , soldiers , ‘ old news ’ ( usually known as ‘ history ’ ) and all . |
| 7 | Shortly after the start I had problems with Gerhard 's oil all over my visor , so I just drove my taxi home to take third place . ’ |
| 8 | Worsthorne looks horrified : ‘ My despair never reached those proportions . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My tastes never ran that way , ’ Devlin told him . |
| 10 | Louis XV was stating what had , at least until very recently , been a commonplace , when he claimed in 1766 that ‘ in my person alone resides sovereign power … |
| 11 | We thought this was a jolly easy way of making money and it must have been , because my Father never repeated this idea again . |
| 12 | ( My father always liked that verse . |
| 13 | My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed . |
| 14 | My example also incorporates another method of concealment , a rather cruder one . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , as he and my aunt never had any children , I expect to be his heir . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to give all my shots away free this year . |
| 17 | I was brought up perfectly ordinarily in the Church of England but when I was sixteen or seventeen my reason naturally rejected such nonsense . |
| 18 | It is no part of my duty now to give any thought to the making of my own soul or the righting of what I have done wrong . |
| 19 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 20 | But atomic power to my generation always means that mushroom cloud . |
| 21 | So you know erm my brother was er as I said I was er four when my brother died then my mam gradually had more children afterwards until there was nine of us in the end left there . |
| 22 | My brother never says negative things about my body , or how I look . |
| 23 | My mother irritatedly seized two handfuls of the old brocade and dragged them behind my back . |
| 24 | We wanted to know whether Ruby and her kind ever used another object to modify the rocks or sticks they found , to make true tools , in the human sense . |
| 25 | Their provision thus requires collective organizations such as states . |
| 26 | Their presence here guarantees any events would get worldwide press coverage . |
| 27 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |
| 28 | They are all the more impressive because the road at their base nowhere attains much height , being lower than 350 feet above sea level at its summit . |
| 29 | Their action effectively scuppered six years of negotiations , since all decisions taken by the 22 signatories to the 1959 Washington Treaty — the framework for the political and environmental protection of Antarctica - must be unanimous . |
| 30 | In the case of the conscientious war-tax protester it is difficult to conceive of any such competing right which may be plausibly argued against them since their action neither threatens direct violence to others nor does it appear significantly to increase the risk of violent attack from elsewhere . |