Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 2 | Still , the season is still young and I 'm prepared to follow my heart rather than my brain and predict a win ( 1–0 ) against Arsenal tonight . |
| 3 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |
| 4 | I did n't tell him how she had caught hold of my hair again when I was reaching under the bed . |
| 5 | I always use Flex shampoo and conditioner for frequent use because when I 'm working I may have to wash my hair more than once a day . |
| 6 | I hate throwing my MKM away so I devised a way of condensing the information and patterns . |
| 7 | Which is to my advantage anyway because it 's telling him |
| 8 | He added : ‘ I am no less confident of my case today than I was when I was wrongfully dismissed as chief executive on May 14 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 10 | Well indigestion , it was terrible pains down my chest just as though you 'd swallowed glass and every now and again it would sort of stab at you . |
| 11 | I took the cliff road and the wind could be so fierce that it blew me off my bike more than once . |
| 12 | George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his . |
| 13 | She tries to slam the door , but I 've got my foot there like I really was selling brushes . |
| 14 | I only need my money now before I go |
| 15 | now , for my money now if that were loose I 'd open these |
| 16 | I could come out top in my exams then when I never did at school , I never did anything much at school at all . |
| 17 | Then ‘ I 've got you under my skin just as you 're getting me outta your system ’ . |
| 18 | I did n't nick my skin even though I shaved quickly . |
| 19 | I made my decision just before I left for Australia . |
| 20 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 21 | And in a way I lost my direction too when all my lovely ideas about what I hoped to do were smashed down , leaving only a shell : a two-dimensional character instead of a many-faceted character , which would have been more interesting to watch and more interesting to do . |
| 22 | The manners of the Inhabitants annihilated whatever tender ideas of pleasure my Fancy rather than my Memory had pictured to my Expectation . |
| 23 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 24 | My sister was no ordinary woman — no woman ever is , but to me , my sister less than any . |
| 25 | I 'm closer to my sister now than I ever was when she was alive , and I 'm closer to knowing what happened to her . |
| 26 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 27 | ‘ Mike , you deliberately loosened my ropes more than you needed to . |
| 28 | The peer was silent but I knew he was following my progress intently because every now and then I had to brush aches from the surface of the uterus . |
| 29 | The various motoring offences can baffle the uninitiated , as I learned to my horror once when on a jury . |
| 30 | The image of the insect may pass over the edge of my retina rather than the more acute central region . |