Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note : Through an omission on my part the editors did not receive these notes for inclusion in the last Journal . |
| 2 | In my case the burdens are weighted saddlebags that hang from my shoulder . |
| 3 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 4 | No chance , I thought , just my luck the clocks are n't working . |
| 5 | In my mind the trees were so large and tall and different . |
| 6 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , my dear , but your sweet face has entirely driven from my mind the details of your file . |
| 8 | Through my binoculars-camera the colours down on the track in the chilly sunshine looked sharp and bright , the race easy on that account to read . |
| 9 | These were magnificent , but in my eyes the men were even finer , with their dark , hollow cheeks , taut , slim bodies in tight-fitting black corduroys that vividly outlined their considerable sexual equipment . |
| 10 | I see that behind the bluff little moustache and the liquid , fish-liver eyes — in my photograph the eyes are turned towards the prince of Wales ( himself a rather ghostly figure under a solar helmet ) — shelters another presence . |
| 11 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 12 | The earth is an electrode , my legs the conductors . |
| 13 | In my opinion the qualities mentioned are sadly lacking today and it is very refreshing to meet somebody like John who is so conscientious . |
| 14 | And in my opinion the results of this method of child rearing show what an inefficient method it is . |
| 15 | ‘ In my opinion the sums expended have been applied for the purposes authorized by Parliament and the account properly presents the expenditure and receipts … for the year ended … ‘ |
| 16 | Well my that was my incentive the mines . |
| 17 | I can still hear in my imagination the sounds of lambing in springtime , particularly from Blind Beck , just over to the north-east from us where the Lowsons farmed . |
| 18 | To my astonishment the words came flooding back , and for some ten minutes , while the train lay cocooned in a web of silence and darkness , I continued my singing , grateful that I had the compartment to myself . |
| 19 | and loose upon my head the rains |
| 20 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 21 | In spite of my umbrella the shoulders of my trenchcoat were soaked , not that it bothered me . |
| 22 | I have no reason to believe that my son was contemplating ending his life and he had to my knowledge no enemies . ’ |
| 23 | You would cheer me up , for you are ten years younger and at my age the years once again begin to tell . ’ |
| 24 | He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda . |
| 25 | Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose . |
| 26 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 27 | Yes and I I I think y my Lord the plaintiffs will be cross examined quite considerably on the damages claimed and I think it might help your Lordship to see erm the way . |
| 28 | If after I have read my submissions the councils wish and are permitted to make any observations on it , I request the right to reply thereto before the matter is decided by you . |
| 29 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 30 | ‘ Men always turn out like that in my life the ones I 'm interested in . |