Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 2 | I thought , it 's an insult my flipping intelligence ! |
| 3 | ( Gav looked defensive for all of a micro-second , a concession my lacerated self-respect fell upon with all the pathetic desperation of a humiliatingly defeated politician pointing out that well , things can only get better . ) |
| 4 | This result means that New Northern will compete in Division I next year . |
| 5 | But for the present my principal interest is in meanings qua explicitly posited topics of discourse . |
| 6 | I am particularly pleased to see present my hon. Friend the Member for Windsor and Maidenhead ( Sir A. Glyn ) , who obviously has a major interest in this matter . |
| 7 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 8 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 9 | Of course my main concern in the late 1970s was to ensure that aircraft accidents were properly investigated and that sufficient importance was being attached to recommendations for the prevention of more accidents . |
| 10 | I always regarded that as my Birthday present , of course my happy birthday only lasted about anther hour . |
| 11 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 12 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 13 | While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up . |
| 14 | For example , the written sentence My next destination is Finland and in particular Kuusamo , which is a town close to the Soviet border might be spoken I 'm off to Finland next . |
| 15 | In any case my personal life has nothing to do with you , ’ she retorted , stung by his overriding air of masculine superiority . |
| 16 | You 'd dearly love to claim them as one of ours , the latest American band to owe an unpayable debt to Brit-rock 's influence — in this case My Bloody Valentine and what that yanks dozily call ‘ Dream Pop ’ — but that would be too simple . |
| 17 | ‘ In case my digestive juices were making so much noise that none of you heard what I said , I 'll repeat it . |
| 18 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 19 | I 'll go armed with a few of my best designs , just in case my big break awaits me ! ’ |
| 20 | This was done in case my main culture got fouled by overfeeding and hence I was always able to start a new culture if necessary . |
| 21 | Then I I remember one m my sister my younger sister she went to er to hospital with erm scarlet fever . |
| 22 | has been considerable , Chairman my one concern which has in fact shared by Mrs as Mr referred in , in his letter is erm how long is this experiment should run for erm how long five point seven the first of three months , although the wording is n't , it is in fact half the recommendation , I would want to er agree with Mrs suggest that this be six months , erm because three months particularly in the winter months ca n't , ca n't really be considered a very thorough experimental period . |
| 23 | This uninhibited tourist did not look like the Frankenstein monster whom many Americans had expected and some of them began to wonder if they had got Khrushchev and his modest and dignified wife wrong . |
| 24 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 25 | In January 1973 I found myself , and the grey metal trunk my eldest brother had used to take to university in 1967 , dumped in an austere fifth form dormitory in the main block of the school . |
| 26 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 27 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 28 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 29 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I was upset over that telegram my beloved son sent . |