Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 2 | My guitar has an undersaddle Ashworth transducer . |
| 3 | I know you 're going , my heart fears the worst … |
| 4 | Almost an hour passed with my heart thumping every time the door of number four opened . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 6 | My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back . |
| 7 | ‘ Call me … call me , Mr Kawasaki , ’ I said , and , like my old generator , my heart skipped a bound . |
| 8 | I felt my stomach lurch and my heart beat a little faster . |
| 9 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 10 | My heart gave a quick double thump … so that was It . |
| 11 | Now my heart performed a little jig , impromptu . |
| 12 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 13 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 14 | My heart missed a beat … ’ |
| 15 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 16 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 17 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 18 | It conditioned my hair really well but I think I may have used it too often because my hair became a little TOO soft to style after a while ! ’ |
| 19 | Q I 've been having my hair permed every four months for the past three years . |
| 20 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 21 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |
| 22 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 23 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 24 | Handwriting , I could make my handwriting neater , larger , I could try joining my handwriting have the letters joined , some people are still more comfortable printing in year seven . |
| 25 | We arrived back at my cabin to watch a private video called Sierra Nevada starring a vixen called Kym . |
| 26 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 27 | Conscious that it would be very much to my advantage to have an ally within Alison 's gates , I replied warmly , ‘ Me too . ’ |
| 28 | My grant covered the school fees only , and no provision was made for other necessities . |
| 29 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 30 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |