Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh dear me sorry thanks Mike phew . |
| 2 | I show my palms and turn on my sweetest Bugs Bunny grin . |
| 3 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 4 | As with all visitors to such events I decided , first to look for my old pals Brucie and Tarby , the funniest men in golf . |
| 5 | Two hideous yuppies in tubular stainless steel sipping minimalist cocktails — no olives or fruit salad — God , give my ageing pectorals strength ! — and contemplating how much they can borrow to house their sterile fucking , dear . |
| 6 | What help will I get from my Social Services Department ? |
| 7 | I followed the man , staying on my high woods path . |
| 8 | And me with my second-class honours degree , standing there with corns on my hands saying yes sir , no sir , till I made my smart answer , my quick repartee . |
| 9 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 10 | He said , he was going to throw this car thing at my hi fi thing . |
| 11 | My sincere thanks to my amanuensis Simon Rose , to my personal assistants Cressida and Catherine and to my colleague Bargepole , for showing me the consequences of taking the wrong turning in life . |
| 12 | My five-month-old son is wearing suits to fit a 12–18-month-old , while my four-year-old is wearing clothes for a child aged six to seven years , and my seven-year-old fits garments sized eight to nine years ! |
| 13 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 14 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 15 | My green cord trousers came next , followed by my fawn Kickers boots , lables removed as from everything I wear because I refuse to be a walking advertisement for anybody . |
| 16 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 17 | And proud dad Alex said last night : ‘ When I arrived down here from Aberdeen my then assistants Archie Knox and Brian Kidd said I would be silly to let a good player go just because he was my son . |
| 18 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 19 | I learn from my medical sciences colleagues that the Science Museum has recently placed some proprietary drugs on inventory . |
| 20 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 21 | While my hard-nosed companions dream of war |
| 22 | Oh yeah my general studies group are n't you ? |
| 23 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 24 | I have my own antiques business . ’ |
| 25 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 26 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 27 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 28 | My oldest brothers Jack and Charlie had turned up and were shuffling about , getting in everyone 's way , and Dad lit the candles so that the flickering glow shed an eerie light . |
| 29 | The faces grinning from the tatty punk regalia looked so depraved and hollow-eyed that I could not bear to think of my American blues friends calling them ‘ sir ’ . |
| 30 | Some doubts having been expressed about the validity of her divorce in America , I caused enquiries to be made and received from my American agents copies of the decree of divorce which was issued on 7 April 1961 . |