Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ bad ’ characters in any story grab attention more easily than the ‘ good ’ because in them are realised our own temptations and foul qualities which we suppress in our daily lives . |
| 2 | Schoolgirl fantasies were fulfilled when I was given my own dressing room and bathrobe . |
| 3 | I was told their common name is the Purple Nile Mouthbrooder . |
| 4 | At the interval I was allowed my first glass of champagne . |
| 5 | She 's formed her own production company , Siren Films , and after her ‘ Blonde Ambition ’ tour she plans to make Blessing In Disguise with Beatty again at the helm . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's made her own bed . |
| 7 | She 's ploughed her own money into the project , carrying on after retirement . |
| 8 | Gloria ( Perez ) , his girlfriend , wins a lot of money on a gameshow she 's spent her whole life practising for , but Billy bets it all on a basketball game . |
| 9 | She 's rewritten her own biography , and is very touchy about her past . ’ |
| 10 | Imagine my Ma 's response to : ‘ She 's taken my best smile , ’ or , ‘ Give me back my hug round the legs . ’ |
| 11 | In 1899 her paper on the ‘ Hissing of the Electric Arc ’ , read before the Institution of Electrical Engineers , was awarded a premium , and two days later she was elected its first woman member . |
| 12 | The day she left Australia she was informed her new appointment was as vice-Principal at the ICO . |
| 13 | A PROUD mother told last night of her joy when she was handed her new-born baby boy only weeks after she had been the victim of a hit and run accident . |
| 14 | 9.00 pm , and we are fed our complimentary supper of sausages and mash — hardly the food of love , unless you 're a particularly staunch Freudian — and head stodgily back to the dance-floor . |
| 15 | The only disappointing aspect of the evening was the fact that we were denied our customary postmatch interview with Mr Taylor . |
| 16 | When we went to see her we were shown her enormous melanomas , two were the size of large grapefruit and there were numerous others up to golf ball size . |
| 17 | Presumably they are paid their fabulous salaries to spot errors such as these . |
| 18 | Just seven days earlier , they were warned their new-born babies may have been tagged wrongly when a fire alarm went off . |
| 19 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 20 | Then it 's hoped her new fixtures and fittings will help her win the 1993 Tall Ships Race . |
| 21 | She says it 's affected her whole life . |
| 22 | It 's called My First Batteries And Magnets Book . |
| 23 | He says it 's meant his elderly mother has had to live in a house that 's dangerous , barely habitable and will cost eighty thousand pounds to repair . |
| 24 | It is called our peripheral vision . |
| 25 | It is based on the modular system and it is hoped our two experts , Messrs. V. Hull and C. Largefeuille will commence training and then , examining any of our Accredited Tutors who are interested in this subject , they will then in turn be able to teach embalmers these specialised skills . |
| 26 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
| 27 | If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle . |
| 28 | Traditionally speaking , once an instructor has passed all his elementary examinations and is deemed proficient , he is awarded his first dan ( known as shodan ) . |
| 29 | At 7ft , he 's the tallest man in his home town , Gloucester and hopes he 's reached his full height . |
| 30 | And when he 's fulfilled his latest ambition ? |