Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the imminence of the new technology was the moment to hang up my briefcase and say good luck to the thrusting new young generation . |
| 2 | There may be the odd one or two , but the risk he 's making his head blown off by doing it , so against most of us will say here you are take my money and run passive behaviour . |
| 3 | At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him . |
| 4 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 5 | I took a deep breath , pulled the cabby cap down over my eyes and knocked seven bells out of the Cornish pixie . |
| 6 | I try to be comfortable ; to stretch my legs and think soothing thoughts . |
| 7 | I can realise my stock and pay twenty bob in the pound if I go into voluntary liquidation now , before Masters of Notts gets deeper into trouble . |
| 8 | But I knew I could manage to stagger to my feet and find fresh kindling . |
| 9 | ‘ One day I shall oil and sharpen my shears and make another bird , ’ she said softly . |
| 10 | ‘ Wait a minute , wait a minute , ’ I say , pulling my left eyelid up and hurting my eye and starting that eye watering . |
| 11 | During the day I sit banging my drum and watching good actors singing my words . |
| 12 | One thing I used to wish he would invent : something I could wear round my head — a kind of miner 's lamp — that would destroy film in the cameras of people who come to my concerts and take flash photos during the performance . |
| 13 | I lift the long curls from my head and brush some life back into my flattened hair . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll pack my things and go first thing in the morning , ’ she called back over her shoulder , her voice like razor blades . |
| 15 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 16 | I just want to get away from my wife and get some peace . |
| 17 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 18 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |
| 19 | So I respect the access restrictions for the sake of Ted and those like him , but I reserve the right in the pub to stick out my tongue and make rasping noises at those men with wallets instead of penises , who think that pulling the trigger and gleefully watching a beautiful stag 's legs buckling beneath it as it dies is somehow a sign of manliness . |
| 20 | I , I , I think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place Peter , because at the end of the day you 're chasing business , you , you 're looking for business and if I 've got an account , I 'll be honest with you , if I 've got an account tomorrow or , that rings in and it 's in for sort of Friday , yes , and that should be there , and I 'm out of the area Friday , I 'll go across and get that business , I 'd go out of my area and get that business , |
| 21 | Having pressed all the component parts to make up a wedding picture for the bride , there may be some pieces left over ( if you have followed my advice and pressed additional flowers and foliage in case of accident ) . |
| 22 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 23 | At the same time I wanted to further my career and win more medals . |
| 24 | Instead , I crouched near my hissing flames , nursing my leg and keeping one hand close to a sturdy length of branch . |
| 25 | Trying to decide whether to take them down off my windows and put some poles up . |
| 26 | Having ascertained that she would , indeed , be forced to sell fifteen per cent of SUPPLYKITS to Adam for a token amount , she added , ‘ In that case , please rewrite my will and delete all reference to Adam Grant . |
| 27 | It might get into the papers , and then she 'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , ’ he said , ‘ I am going to wash , shave , change my clothes and eat honest food , then it 's back to Woodstock , Ranulf , mounted and armed . |
| 29 | I was n't being paid $ 500,000 a day to sit on my butt and watch Blue Peter . |
| 30 | But anyway that 's all my moans and groans this morning . |