Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 2 | I 'll have words with Sharon on Monday and er , oh I ca n't , yes I can on Monday I 'm having my hair cut later , but I can come up about nine o'clock and see if she 's here . |
| 3 | I had my hair cut very very short and I just all of a sudden realised that it was all a bit serious ; that something else was about to happen . |
| 4 | Tomorrow would be quite nice because I 'm having my hair done tomorrow . |
| 5 | Ca n't keep , ca n't , keeps from having my hair permed anyway ! |
| 6 | Others , then , will have to judge whether my views expressed here are consonant with that tradition . |
| 7 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 8 | Of course , my horizons broadened considerably after the documentary . |
| 9 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 10 | When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too . |
| 11 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 12 | Are my shoulders hunched so that they are close to my ears ? |
| 13 | I quicken my step , keeping my eyes fixed ahead , hoping for a sign of life about the croft . |
| 14 | I had my ears pierced very young , and my nose pierced more recently . |
| 15 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
| 16 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 17 | Oh my limbs hurt so much . |
| 18 | He wore an expression of abject defeat and for a short moment my attention moved away from my own troubles and I felt sorry for him . |
| 19 | I 've never had my place searched before . ’ |
| 20 | Somehow not unnaturally , I 'd say — they got it into their heads that you 'd be … well , I do n't want to get my nose punched here , do I ? |
| 21 | Is my back arched so that it is not fully in contact with the ground ? |
| 22 | And it 's got my name written all over it , in shiny gold letters . |
| 23 | So you you want my name printed there ? |
| 24 | But at least ten to fifteen bakers to my knowledge left rather than go down to what they called the Belsen camp . |
| 25 | Has my wife arrived yet ? ’ |
| 26 | You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm having my leg pulled here ! |
| 28 | ‘ I like to have my scalp massaged properly , not tickled . ’ |
| 29 | Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities . |
| 30 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |