Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 My heart overflows with a freedom
2 My story begins with a visit to a great friend of mine , John Blackwell .
3 ‘ Most of my money comes from a trust fund . ’
4 ‘ But my sister sounds like a witch , ’ he finished for her , evidently extremely amused by the idea .
5 My husband dies in a car crash with his mistress and you think I can forget about it ? ’
6 My husband works for a firm .
7 My husband works for a bus company but he has n't said anything about this .
8 My husband works in a shoe shop .
9 My head feels like a helium balloon . ’
10 and he goes erm I am a con my head looks like a condom .
11 My tongue feels like a rug .
12 ‘ Pride of place in my collection goes to a book by WG Grace that 's signed by him . ’
13 My da works in a foundry ; I have a brother who 's an apprentice electrician , and then there 's my ma .
14 This Is My Life begins with a hint of promise as Kavner rushes round the set like an uncontrolled greyhound , Hoffmann and Mathis do a neat job of tight-lipped anger and all concerned knock six mental bells out of each other at every turn .
15 But my happiness depends on a hope .
16 But if my kid comes off a pedestal , the language comes off the pedestal too .
17 My hand runs like a delta through
18 Dear Mr Hughes , my garden suffers from a lot of twitch .
19 Yeah man , my Dad gets on a hard'un .
20 My Dad works on a farm in Maltside , and we live in a cottage that belongs to the farmer .
21 I find that actually speaking to people my dad , mum and dad , well my mum works in an office , my dad works in a factory , and they 've always been very much sort of you know go out and get your education and
22 My family comes from a region where people are very poor and very tough .
23 Daryl was puzzled , but Sally do n't be silly my mother says in a letter she 's seen your baby sister she 's three months old she said .
24 ‘ Because my mother works in a hotel shop where they do n't really go a bundle on employing married women in the first place , so I do n't want to get her all into a fluster for nothing .
25 If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn .
26 Its text survives in a Fulda manuscript of c .820–30 , and Fulda was a monastery founded by St Boniface as a convenient centre from which to preach to several Germanic peoples including the Saxons .
27 However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment .
28 Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came .
29 Its hope lies in a return to its Christian basis .
30 You should have shown your readers that there is n't a Prince Charming , so they wo n't feel disappointed and cheated if their prince turns into a frog , like mine did .
  Next page