Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 2 | She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements . |
| 3 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 4 | If you give me the necessary details , I 'll fill in the order-form . ’ |
| 5 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 6 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 7 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 8 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 9 | " Strictly speaking , you 're going to be dead very soon unless you give me the right instructions . " |
| 10 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |
| 11 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 12 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 13 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 14 | Give me the right details for contacting your radio people at this end and I 'll be in touch before you know it . ’ |
| 15 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 16 | Show me the ultimate intensifiers of sin . |
| 17 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 18 | The ‘ Dragon-in-charge ’ sold me the requisite shoes , leotard and headband , finally producing a crossover cardigan in a scratchy wool , of a dirty mustard colour . |
| 19 | If they can change me from one to another by using hormones , they can now give me the male hormones and then I 've got everything I want . ’ |
| 20 | But she well she did n't , I mean she did n't tell me the intimate details or anything I do n't even know whether she has , she wo , she might have ju ge , been getting over dramatic or something ! |
| 21 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 22 | Love for another is one of the main derivatives of this awareness of difference ( two bodies in different skins ) and the accompanying gratitude when good things are provided : ‘ I love you because you are my mother and give me the good things I need . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ To those who took offence at the ‘ Burn down the disco ’ line , I 'd say , please show me the black members of New Order . |
| 24 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 25 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 26 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 28 | Can somebody pass me the new potatoes please ? |
| 29 | Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster . |
| 30 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |