Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 2 | Fortunately their approach coincided with my plans for a charitable foundation to buy art for Britain . |
| 3 | Having read through my notes with a fine toothpick , I can find no mention of the tent on the far side of the ground whatsoever . |
| 4 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 5 | I sat on the wheelbarrow and sank my teeth into a fresh loaf . |
| 6 | I opened my eyes into a black web . |
| 7 | I asked , my eyes on a cheap silver bracelet . |
| 8 | But , hysteria apart , these trips opened my eyes to a new world of music and beauty , of which there had n't , of necessity , been a great deal during the last six years . |
| 9 | At least the manager did n't pounce on me just because I shut my eyes for a few moments . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of the Principles , Berkeley reminds us that his ‘ main drift and design ’ has been to ‘ inspire my readers with a pious sense of the presence of God ’ . |
| 11 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 12 | I was heartily relieved to feel the hands of one of the porters , situated on a ledge below , guide my feet to a secure hold . |
| 13 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |
| 14 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 15 | I had stepped straight off the ferry from Dover and had nothing in my pockets except a disposable razor and my toothbrush . |
| 16 | ‘ 'E 's got 'is feet under a good table , ’ his father often chuckled . |
| 17 | I cried , forgetting the bruise which racked my neck and the heavy fatigue which still held my limbs in a vice-like grip . |
| 18 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 19 | By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name . |
| 20 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 21 | From my days as a weekly newspaper reporter , my enthusiasm and affection for journalism have never lessened . |
| 22 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 23 | I can keep Rainbow in my sights for a little while longer . |
| 24 | In between , I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me , knowing in advance my fate . |
| 25 | It is just that now my study is directed towards enriching the surface of my paintings through a better understanding of the basic pictorial elements such as shape and edges . |
| 26 | It is just that now my study is directed towards enriching the surface of my paintings through a better understanding of the basic pictorial elements such as shape and edges . |
| 27 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 28 | Pose my questions in a logical sequence and link them with the candidate 's replies ? |
| 29 | Some years ago I discussed my beliefs with a learned Professor of Agriculture at a leading university . |
| 30 | The shock of finding out , when I finally persuaded a partner to play with me , that I was colour-blind , put paid to my dreams of a misspent youth . |