Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me luv thee my own road , as if I was bringin' the money ‘ ome . |
| 2 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 3 | I 've always had an ear for accents , and I gave them my best German and Italian and my speciality : French with a hint of Punjabi . |
| 4 | Some though , and among them my dear lady Elizabeth ( always in her thoughts did Alianor refer thus to the queen-dowager ) think differently . |
| 5 | I showed them my three houses , my cornfields and my goats , and all my tools . |
| 6 | Yes , I would , ’ I said and gave them my American Express card with alacrity . |
| 7 | ENTIRE EPISODES in 1988 centred around a clandestine teen love affair ; the ostensible excuse for the lovers to meet was always ‘ I must show him/her my new copy of NME . ’ |
| 8 | They showed me my new hip . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the biggest mistake he ever made buying me my first board . ’ |
| 10 | She gave me my first mask when I was two years old . |
| 11 | Then editor Ian Pye gave me my first assignment : ‘ Do the gig guide . |
| 12 | This extravaganza was directed by Max Reinhart and it gave me my first experience as an impresario , for I was commissioned by the MGM office for Canada to ‘ organize the promotion ’ of the film in our area . |
| 13 | As the organist began the introduction , the lights dimmed to add ‘ mood ’ , allowing me my first sight of the sparse audience . |
| 14 | Yes I could , and that 's what landed me my first part — Captain O'Hagarty , a dastardly villain in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ serial . |
| 15 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 16 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 17 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 18 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 19 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 20 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 21 | He was in the top three after round one , and that gave me my first taste of a possible major win . |
| 22 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 23 | It was the prostitutes in Douai and Lille and Paris who gave me my first induction into their ways and wiles . |
| 24 | This place has given me my first identity really . |
| 25 | I do want you to know how clearly I understand my deep obligation to you for giving me my first insight into the real problem we were facing and my first understanding of the nature of clinical research ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Fetch me my long bow , ’ jeered the Lord Llewellyn , ‘ and I 'll shoot me that winter goose up there . ’ |
| 27 | So letter and er and evening compiling it has er gained me my fifteen pound back ! |
| 28 | I still live in hope , though , always changing hairdressers , praying the next one will give me my perfect style . ’ |
| 29 | That old boy that I spoke to , when his he was with his daughter , I said you give me my bloody keys and you money ! |
| 30 | He visits elsewhere but he leaves me my dreaming space . |