Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony was one of the undoubted stars of the review and became my invaluable right-hand man . |
| 2 | OBSESSIVE ‘ It became my personal obsessive battle cry , ’ wrote Mr Marshall . |
| 3 | Lincoln rapidly became my second favourite town , largely because of its fabulous cathedral . |
| 4 | If he had been listening , then , he would have heard my right hon. Friend 's point about the lay-by . |
| 5 | As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell . |
| 6 | I got my first borstal when I was about eighteen for assault on another girl . |
| 7 | That 's when I got my first big shock of the night for the caller was none other than Danny himself ! |
| 8 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 9 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 10 | On the seventh of June I got my statutory twelve months . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to lose my two best friends . |
| 12 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 13 | As this is the first Prime Minister 's Question Time since the Commonwealth conference , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his constructive and positive approach to the issues ? |
| 14 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on that record ? |
| 15 | If to tax and to please , no more than to love and be wise , is not given to man , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on seeking to do the impossible . |
| 16 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend particularly on the formation of a second Territorial Army Air Corps squadron ? |
| 17 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the structure and military role that he has announced today ? |
| 18 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 19 | Bang-bang-bang goes my big bass heart while I press the last number . |
| 20 | May I take the opportunity to thank my right hon. Friend for accepting my invitation to address Wolverhampton chamber of commerce at its annual dinner , where he will meet many members of the west midlands region of the CBI ? |
| 21 | In addition , I should like to thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his well deserved tributes to the emergency services . |
| 22 | Could I possibly make my one one minute comment on criteria eleven ? |
| 23 | I want to wear my short black one ! |
| 24 | This time I did see because he had uncannily identified one of my private sources of shame and voiced my own concomitant mantra . |
| 25 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
| 26 | Watching the kestrel was a great experience , but life was still very frustrating for me because my mother understandably would n't let me wander very far afield , and I was n't going to see my first real live wild owl in Colchester Park ! |
| 27 | With a bit of luck I 'll actually get to see my first competitive Leeds match next Wednesday v the Arse at Highbury . |
| 28 | Thought you ought to see my first published letter — in its edited & unedited versions . |
| 29 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 30 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |