Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
| 2 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
| 3 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
| 4 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 5 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 6 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 7 | If , however , like Bilinda from My Bloody Valentine you 're singing tender entreaties to your partner or questioning the nature of love , then you 're saying something universal and good . |
| 8 | I do n't have to go for examinations at all now , I come under , what 's it , you know my bloody pension it marvels me , I 've been under every ruddy regimental paymaster and , in the , and Scotland I think , I , I at present I 'm with one in Scotland , but eh , mucking about with |
| 9 | This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class . |
| 10 | Unless the clergy want my complete damnation they can ask for no more . |
| 11 | The 44-year-old Prince lamented the generation gap but joked that ‘ even at my advanced age I can make a muddle ’ . |
| 12 | on my right side it 's er |
| 13 | But as she administered to my addled wits I felt a surge of rebellion . |
| 14 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
| 15 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |
| 16 | My dear Hana he thought . |
| 17 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
| 18 | My dear chap you could n't put them in a work of fiction . |
| 19 | I trust my dear Eliza you are still well and that you received my letter . |
| 20 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 21 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 22 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 23 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 24 | ‘ I told my old lady I 'd be home , ’ McQuaid lied as he rose . |
| 25 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 26 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 28 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 29 | Knowing my old man he 'd probably fucking turn me in . |
| 30 | ‘ Well I promised my old man I would take home a feed for him tonight . |