Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 2 | My decision pleased the present-day driver , as the fare would be expensive . |
| 3 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has , incidentally , materially diminished my capacity to enjoy the original symphony . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Certainly I did not regard it as my job to defend the departmental budget just because it was the departmental budget . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | My diary records the frequent wish for ‘ interesting people and interesting places ’ . |
| 18 | Since my appointment to chair the Working Group I had seen Mr Baker only on one occasion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That 's my chair said the big bear . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 23 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 24 | But my father attended the old Baron in his last illness . |
| 25 | But how did my father calculate the exact timing , or was he just lucky ? |
| 26 | The title I have given to my paper echoes the extended title of the conference . |
| 27 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 28 | I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to . |
| 29 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 30 | It would be my turn to get the good stuff . |