Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 2 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 3 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 4 | Some of my favourite music came from 1964 . ’ |
| 5 | My daily routine began with wood-cutting for fuel . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 7 | To take the latter point first , if my hon. Friend looks at many , perhaps all , of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies , he will find that they were split 50 : 50 — there was employee representation . |
| 8 | I urge my hon. Friend to keep in close touch to make sure that response times are up to the charter . |
| 9 | I ask my hon. Friend to think of any reason why detailing the savage discrimination of the MacSharry proposals and their impact on Scottish agriculture would weaken the Minister 's hand when negotiating . |
| 10 | As it happened , I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer 's bantering , and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings . |
| 11 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 12 | well it 's got my electric cable running through that fence you see |
| 13 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 14 | My particular cleaner came with two sizes of suction tube , and experiment has shown that for maximum suck the large diameter pipe must go from the cleaner to the container . |
| 15 | My final case relates to two girls who live in a hostel that manages beds for single homeless girls , many of whom come there because of family breakdown or abuse . |
| 16 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 19 | They 've spent their professional life dealing with general classes of person , with samples and percentages of classes , not with individuals . |
| 20 | Some cakes will be particularly attractive to younger children — for instance the colourful clown , the sheep with its woolly coat made from fluffy frosting , or the large tortoise nibbling a piece of lettuce . |
| 21 | Oxford 's green fields are being overwhelmed and its historic character lost to luxury developments , while homelessness grows . |
| 22 | Its walls were of thick stone blocks and bulged and its low ceiling criss-crossed with smoke-blackened oak beams . |
| 23 | Tribal societies , city states , ancient empires , feudal societies , are all organized on some different principle , their political cohesion maintained by other kinds of bond . |
| 24 | It is not just the EC 's free market consumerism which the Greens detest ; they are opposed , too , to its political structure based on capitalist nation-states . |
| 25 | Its political survival depends on solid backing from South Africa 's 5m whites . |
| 26 | A muscle near her right cheekbone fluttered at erratic intervals , and the nail polish was chipped . |
| 27 | The voices of rural families have seldom been heard in effective protest , and least of all in socialist states such as Tanzania and Mozambique , each of which have compelled large chunks of their rural population to live in communal villages against their will . |
| 28 | Each Baby Bell can see its local-exchange monopoly coming under increasing pressure from cellular companies , private-line operators and nimble intermediaries offering customers alternative ways to reach long-distance operators . |
| 29 | It used the standard for its interim report published on 10 November 1992 . |
| 30 | Their total employment fell by 250,000 ( 4 per cent ) from 1981 to 1987 . |