Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually my real father emigrated to New Zealand . |
| 2 | Breathing with the others , my heart began to beat very fast , and soon my fingertips were tingling. ; eventually my whole body was filled by trembling . |
| 3 | ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . ) |
| 4 | Luckily my own wife has n't called . ’ |
| 5 | But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery . |
| 6 | How right my hon. Friend is to point out that our rate of inflation is less than half the best rate ever achieved by the 1974-79 Labour and Labour-Liberal Administration . |
| 7 | As a result , there might have been some minor publicity , but how right my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) was : people would have talked about there being no smoke without fire . |
| 8 | It 's only them two cutting . |
| 9 | cabbage , savoy cabbage , carrots and he 'd cu cut them like I always cut them cos they were only them little baby carrots so , what I do I slice them down |
| 10 | ‘ There must be so me natural explanation . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps my principal contribution was to have suggested the creation of rent officers and to have advised a formula for ‘ fair rents ’ which rent officers would be able to use in their day-to-day dealings with landlords and tenants . |
| 12 | Perhaps my new friend will come . |
| 13 | But perhaps my real mistake lay in assuming there was something there to know — something more than a cardboard cut-out . ’ |
| 14 | Or is this perhaps my old friend Bernard Ingham coming in one more time to help the lady of his adoration ? |
| 15 | What I mean is , ’ Julia stumbled , ‘ perhaps my inglorious life story is n't relevant to what we 're supposed to be doing here . |
| 16 | This afternoon I made what is perhaps my last visit to ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 17 | Perhaps my hon. Friend will be reassured when I announce to the House that we will be laying tomorrow an order to ensure that , for all indictable offences , there will be the compulsory taking of evidence by tape recording in police stations . |
| 18 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 19 | Then , coming back , one of them saw me , or perhaps my loose wing . |
| 20 | Perhaps my favourite hole is also the most famous . |
| 21 | All my notions — notions of good or evil , of pleasant and unpleasant , of funny and serious , of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle class notions ; my taste in books and food and clothes , my sense of honour , my table manners , my turns of speech , my accent , even the characteristic movements of my body , are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche half way up the social hierarchy … to get outside the class racket I have got to suppress not merely my private snobbishness , but most of my other tastes and prejudices as well . |
| 22 | By this , he did not mean that truth is simply subjective , merely my own opinion , what I happen to like to regard as true . |
| 23 | Everything I 've said here is merely my informed opinion based on my own experience against a limited selection of foes . |
| 24 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 25 | none of my family , only my one daughter . |
| 26 | It was only my individual objection which stopped an unsatisfactory standard for smoke masks being introduced 10 years ago . |
| 27 | " Only my deep devotion to you sir , and a thought for my future acceptance at Court , prevents me from repaying the compliment . " |
| 28 | Only my present boyfriend stops me . |
| 29 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's only my second day , ’ said Juliet , ‘ and I must dash . ’ |