Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 3 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 4 | The , my eye I got some drops from the chemist cos my eye was bad . |
| 5 | On my way back to my room I had another look into Toby 's . |
| 6 | From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour , with here and there some lights twinkling through it . ’ |
| 7 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 8 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 9 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 10 | They they had er they had hamme They had Again y Even in my day you had some hand squads , as they were called , who would have their own er rivet hammers you know , and hand hammers . |
| 11 | Brampton Theatre asked me how much it was going to cost , so I , off the top of my head I said twenty pounds |
| 12 | Not my breakfast , my drink I had this morning |
| 13 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 14 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 15 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 16 | On my arrival I had another tiff with Frank Dick . |
| 17 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 18 | Several months ago I introduced a small Regal into my tank which behaved this way . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 20 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 21 | When she put her hand to her hair she felt small twigs and she was hastily removing them when a car slid to a halt beside her . |
| 22 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
| 23 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 24 | Nationalisation brought mechanisation of their work which involved separating dirt — slate — from the coal before sale . |
| 25 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw angry movement . |
| 26 | She was the only child in her town who had three medals . |
| 27 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 28 | Early in her career she undertook collaborative research with William Bateson [ q.v. ] on plant-breeding experiments on Biscutella laevigata , the work involving a study of what came to be known as dominant and recessive characters . |
| 29 | In Edinburgh district , 61 per cent of those questioned correctly identified Lothian Regional Council as a local authority in their area which provided local services . |
| 30 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |