Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God has placed on my heart a real desire to be involved in training , encouraging and equipping Christians to know their God intimately as a Father , and to share my faith in evangelism , taking the Gospel to the people . |
| 2 | My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Listen to what happened to me , ’ I said , and I told my story a third time . |
| 4 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 5 | Back to the basins to give my hair a brush-through : I liked myself spiky , hedgehog , but I wanted a will-brushed hedgehog . |
| 6 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 7 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 8 | I made my decision a long time ago , and now I have no rightful place in their lives . |
| 9 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 10 | Get oxygen on and I said to my sister a married bloke . |
| 11 | I felt this was totally unjust : the reason I did n't like him was because he was a selfish and violent man who was causing my sister a great deal of misery . |
| 12 | ‘ But not quite so mercenary , and I find it exceedingly distasteful for you to arrogantly assume you might understand my sister a great deal better than I ever could . |
| 13 | ‘ No , of course it does n't ; I 'm a fool to think a woman like you would give my sister a second thought . ’ |
| 14 | In fact my real belief is that in the troubles ahead of us connected with labour we are moving very fast in the direction of revolution ; and though you will consider my hope a baseless one I still entertain it — that it is by Tariff Reform that we might , so to speak , get the train at least shifted on to other lines . |
| 15 | The tokens encouraged me in my search a great deal , as did the next find to appear , a 14th century strap-end buckle . |
| 16 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 17 | One thing , one thing about it , it 's crossed my mind a long time ago is er the idea of erm in the half hour or whatever twenty minutes before a concert , doing er concert programme notes |
| 18 | I feel my heart pounding as I think of her , and I can not push from my mind a strong feeling that something has happened to her . |
| 19 | And he said , ‘ I have in my mind a million notes , and every one which is not perfect makes me mad . ’ |
| 20 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 21 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ T is to my mind a false notion , and I prefer the lisping usage of the children , Caliban . |
| 23 | But at the back of my mind a little voice says , ‘ He 's the hairdresser , he knows best , let him do what he wants and I 'll walk out looking like a princess . ’ |
| 24 | I had at my command a whole hour and a quarter , and I had my voice ; but the words … |
| 25 | At least there should not be a reccurrence of this particular accident — the day after my crash a white cross appeared on the new ‘ runway ’ . |
| 26 | What she did n't know , of course , was that I finished my work a few days ahead of that schedule , and was not here when you — in the guise of your sister , ’ he inserted gently , ‘ arrived . ’ |
| 27 | But do n't go counting on my mercifulness a second time . |
| 28 | I found on my desk a little sticker which states ’ Vote for the Arts ’ , issued by the National Campaign for the Arts . |
| 29 | There is at present in my business a great dislike of the bulk chemical businesses , and a great wish on the part of most people to shift out of them . |
| 30 | Ee , she says , my goodness a small world you know . |