Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 2 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 3 | My decision pleased the present-day driver , as the fare would be expensive . |
| 4 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 5 | Erm that zoning that allocation in a local plan backed by this erm er er policy in the structure plan would be enough in my judgement to enable the economic development people to actually capture the , get the elephant in the trap . |
| 6 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 7 | You will undoubtedly be aware that ‘ Green ’ is the marketing tool of the 90 's and that my department enforces the statutory measures which aim to protect consumers against misdescriptions and misleading claims by manufacturers . |
| 8 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 9 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 10 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 11 | It has , incidentally , materially diminished my capacity to enjoy the original symphony . |
| 12 | ‘ And you truly do need my help to locate the ephemeral Svend — not to mention your sister . ’ |
| 13 | The Minister will not be surprised to learn that my question concerns the regulatory environment of British Steel , in which the Government hold the golden share . |
| 14 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 15 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 16 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 17 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 18 | In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power , hoping for patience to overcome impatience . |
| 19 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 20 | Certainly I did not regard it as my job to defend the departmental budget just because it was the departmental budget . |
| 21 | We formed up over the Channel , and it was my job to fire the Very pistol , with pre-arranged colour flares , so all the other Lancs knew which aircraft to form up on . |
| 22 | ‘ It is also my job to protect the national side and our qualification for the World Cup finals hangs in the balance because of league structures and the problems posed by television . ’ |
| 23 | My diary records the frequent wish for ‘ interesting people and interesting places ’ . |
| 24 | I swivel my head to churn the still-green shadows ; |
| 25 | Since my appointment to chair the Working Group I had seen Mr Baker only on one occasion . |
| 26 | Thus my impulse to assist the injured animal may be overridden by my reminding myself that I am on my way to get married and am already late . |
| 27 | That 's my chair said the big bear . |
| 28 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 29 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 30 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |