Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
| 2 | This is a mere exhibition of my inability to write plain prose , and more terribly , my impotence … |
| 3 | I privately made up my mind to do away with that sort of thing when we took over ; such things should not be allowed . |
| 4 | Dear colleagues , it is my pleasure to send fraternal greetings to all delegates at the G M B Conference from the Executive Officers and Members of the T & G. In the twelve months since I last sent you our good wishes much activity has taken place within our movement . |
| 5 | I was wearing a thick semi-dry suit and I was quite cold the water was cold and this was in June I was quite nervous and I was forever adjusting my buoyancy to achieve neutral buoyancy . |
| 6 | The aims of the work operated in different ways but principally they represented my attempt to set personal responses to premature labour into a cultural context . |
| 7 | While it is not my intention to turn conventional theory on its head , it often happens that theories become accepted facts because people simply repeat them , without anyone ever questioning them . |
| 8 | It is my intention to keep hon. Members informed of the temporary arrangements that will be made for the UKIAS refugee unit . |
| 9 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 10 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 11 | Sitting on the bus , still with my cap on my lap to avoid attracting attention , it struck me that the whole world changed within a mile or two as we left the town . |
| 12 | Unhappy wretch that I am , I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands . |
| 13 | I am honoured and delighted to offer my support to their cause but also my help to raise public awareness about the importance of their needs . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I want my team to play good entertaining football with a bit of steel in it . |
| 15 | It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others . |
| 16 | I 'll leave my imagination to run wild . |
| 17 | It is a major part of my job to provide genuine protection against such circumstances . |
| 18 | On the other hand it most certainly was my job to prevent indefensible cuts . |
| 19 | I want my bait to lie right in the labyrinth of roots , for this is where the better fish will be dining . |
| 20 | It 's whetted my appetite to enter other awards , now , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Though he never forgave me , or my mother for having helped me , both into his world and out of it , he was sufficiently my father to let sleeping dogs lie . |
| 22 | Pray for my wish to come true , I need eleven P , have you got eleven P ? |
| 23 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 24 | ‘ I will be playing in the reserves at Newcastle tomorrow night because I need a game under my belt to get ready for Zimbabwe 's qualifying group match against Egypt in Harare a week on Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 26 | I have marked this letter confidential , since I should prefer the proposals re my Will to remain confidential at this particular time . |
| 27 | Skeldon , 40 next month , said : ‘ The Midland Area Council tell me my licence to box lapsed three years ago . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now it 's my turn to say sorry . ’ |
| 29 | And it was my turn to go wide-eyed , for the leader was a woman , possessing every anatomical aspect of femaleness in glorious Amazonian splendour . |
| 30 | I would like to set up a 42″ × 20″ × 15″ tank in my lounge to house small specimens of our native freshwater fish . |