Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 2 | I 'ad 'em wiv a bit o' cheese on Christmas night . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 4 | I got my Ma a seat . |
| 5 | My knuckles and hands were a mass of windblown cuts and boils which meant that whenever I clenched my fists the gashes opened . |
| 6 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 7 | ‘ I visited his grave every day and sat and cried . ’ |
| 8 | I bent my head a bit , look , you can see on the picture , but I could n't stop grinning . |
| 9 | I used my Telecasters a bit and I used the 330 just for feedback , because the whammy bar is excellent for controlling that . |
| 10 | Émile Chaillot had problems of his own , and I learnt what power a woman can achieve by satisfying bizarre sexual tastes in a man much older than herself . |
| 11 | During the early months of the season I catch my breath a bit , but the body is wonderfully adaptable and I do manage to reach parts of the loch others never cover . |
| 12 | I deserve my £1,800 a week handout to pay for mansion |
| 13 | Shall I give your brother a kiss cos you sat on him ? |
| 14 | I showed my mother a job in the newspaper . |
| 15 | I paid him £100 a year to help me with my work , but he had no place in my house , or in my daughter 's bed ! |
| 16 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 17 | I wiggled my hips a lot ! |
| 18 | PLAYER : And I know which way the wind is blowing . |
| 19 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 20 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 21 | I swung my sword a time or two before retiring from such a dismal cause . ’ |
| 22 | Can I take your pen a minute ? |
| 23 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 24 | I called her baby the Dust Baby and bought him clothes from a shop in Nassau before I left . |
| 25 | I feel its failure every time I recall the two sisters who went into a Belfast cafe in the early 1970s and came out with no legs . |
| 26 | I feel its failure every time I read that the polarisation of the two main religious communities in Northern Ireland is more extreme than ever . |
| 27 | I pay her £1.50 an hour — I could n't afford anyone who charged more than that , to be honest . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I offered your son a lift home this morning , Mr Christie , ’ the voice went on , ‘ and he refused . |
| 29 | I envy my mother every tear she is shedding . |
| 30 | No and I saw her type a letter and sign it as clear as anything . |