Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Wait a minute , wait a minute , ’ I say , pulling my left eyelid up and hurting my eye and starting that eye watering . |
| 6 | During the day I sit banging my drum and watching good actors singing my words . |
| 7 | I lift the long curls from my head and brush some life back into my flattened hair . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I just want to get away from my wife and get some peace . |
| 10 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 , |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At the same time I wanted to further my career and win more medals . |
| 17 | Instead , I crouched near my hissing flames , nursing my leg and keeping one hand close to a sturdy length of branch . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It might get into the papers , and then she 'd be down here knocking on my door and screaming blue murder . |
| 20 | I was n't being paid $ 500,000 a day to sit on my butt and watch Blue Peter . |
| 21 | As for the purchaser , tell him to come to my house and choose another picture — something that both he and I like . |
| 22 | I ran my semi-final and clocked 10.21 seconds ! |
| 23 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 24 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 25 | This challenge provoked the government to offer its resignation and to warn that aid offered by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) before the opening of the Congress [ see p. 38888 ] was being jeopardized . |
| 26 | Like the weather moving in from the Atlantic , we can at best track its course and make reasonable preparations for its coming . |
| 27 | Looking now at her plump , well-kept hands , two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English . |
| 28 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 29 | Brushing out her hair and applying some make-up , something she had n't done for ages , she put on her mac . |
| 30 | I stroke her hair and burble fine words , while she sobs out her questions and accusations . |