Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to play the leading role in my plans to breed owls for release into the wild . |
| 2 | PAMELA : [ taking the letter ] O , how my heart goes pitapat . |
| 3 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
| 4 | My heart stopped beating . |
| 5 | Suddenly my heart stopped beating , and I heard a distant voice cry , ‘ Jane ! |
| 6 | God , when those lances passed over your head , I swear my heart stopped beating . ’ |
| 7 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 8 | I would tell you if I could , I promise you , but my story involves others and — and I simply can not in honour divulge it . ’ |
| 9 | do n't go ) I 'm having my hair done Thursday morning . |
| 10 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 11 | My exposure exposed Tony Asmar , and I believe that is why he was killed . |
| 12 | ooh my foot slipped foot had slipped on the clutch and I could n't do anything about it Oh I did n't realize what time it was , your dad 'll be wondering where his dinner 's got to wo n't he ? |
| 13 | Will my present holiday arrangements be honoured ? |
| 14 | Laura Channing was about to be blackmailed , and my money said Vecchi was the would-be collector on that deal , too . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid that my money brings death with it . ’ |
| 16 | However , I nearly did n't make it as I neglected to register my willingness to take part with the organiser of the hospital team until all 32 places had been filled . |
| 17 | We will start with my favourite stretching exercise . |
| 18 | All the time I was attempting to identify by ear bird noises in the spinney : a jay screeched raucously ; ‘ My toe hurts Betty , ’ crooned a wood pigeon ; a tiny wren ticked its loud emphatic alarm notes ; and over and over a willow warbler trilled . |
| 19 | These matters had a sort of equivalence in my mind : I had my possessions to offer Jean-Claude , his mother had her bathroom to offer me … . |
| 20 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 21 | I have never had any doubts about my decision to move North . |
| 22 | I hope my decision to pay tax will help you understand that I accept I must be accountable to those I serve . |
| 23 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 24 | However , in my role as language courses co-ordinator in charge of a large languages programme I face a daily pressure from my superiors to generate income for our College . |
| 25 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 26 | Over the intervening years one of my great laments has been my inability to achieve solitude , as everywhere I can now go , so can everyone else . |
| 27 | My mum said Dad was angry with me because he ‘ knew how men think ’ . |
| 28 | I mean you should n't be feeling like , I mean my mum had angina and my husband had angina |
| 29 | Mrs Danby , Mrs Quigley , Hannah Dooley , Roger Beeding and my mum rolled Pike off him . |
| 30 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |