Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Queen of my heart -just wait now till I — only a moment — still , lie still … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Your touching announcement awakened in my heart various emotions . |
| 3 | My heart double flips . |
| 4 | I 've told my story many times . ’ |
| 5 | Should have been on my hair fifteen minutes |
| 6 | I was washing my hair that day , or that 's what I decided was the best excuse to tell the voting commission . |
| 7 | I did my hair first thing , so now I untie the ribbon and shake it free . |
| 8 | Trying to break through his silent mood , she said , ‘ Gloria did my hair this morning . |
| 9 | We did , I washed my hair this morning . |
| 10 | oh this awful pain coming I ca n't , move my arm and right side which is the side it hurts , and it goes all up here and it really hurt me to wash my hair , to bend over and wash my hair this morning cos she said |
| 11 | When she corrected my accent one evening she said , " It 's all right for other people to have regional accents but not for oneself " I puzzled over this . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you give me your hand , my kind young friend , and take me inside ? ’ |
| 13 | I had by now recovered my scattered senses and after finishing off my enjoyable meal of pie and peas and my second pint , I thanked my kind new-found friends and left the hospitable Railway bar to walk back down to where my trusty old Morris Minor was parked . |
| 14 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 15 | The CCO 's position underwent a fundamental change in March 1942 when Lord Mountbatten ‘ was made an Acting Vice-Admiral , an Honorary Lieutenant-General , an Honorary Air Marshal , with a seat on the Chiefs of Staff Committee itself , and was thus one of the four military leaders in charge of the higher direction of the War as a whole and in my case Combined Operations in particular ’ — to quote Lord Mountbatten . |
| 16 | I mean I 've put some Vicks on my chest last night and it felt as if it was burning ! |
| 17 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 18 | Indeed , in my experience many doctors welcome , and benefit from , the interest and advice other informed people can give about their patients , this often enhancing the accuracy of their diagnosis . |
| 19 | I know that he has shared my experience many times of being involved in what we lawyers call ’ cut-throat ’ trials . |
| 20 | ‘ In my experience such arrangements usually end in tears for at least one of the protagonists . ’ |
| 21 | In my experience creamy threads are all too often elastic bands with knots in . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , in my experience most boys are bad , ’ he said to me . |
| 23 | In my experience most women take what they want from life without a thought for whom it hurts . |
| 24 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 25 | In my experience these features present problems for many young readers . |
| 26 | I divorced my ex-husband five years ago , after years of him making it obvious that I was acting as a ‘ brake ’ on his life . |
| 27 | The service is something special and I might as well spend my money that way as any other . |
| 28 | so I thought , right , I 'm not going to be beaten , so I got , went back in again , put the card back in , gave me my money that time . |
| 29 | My favourite 10 seconds of Bruce Springsteen is the irresponsibly euphoric opening holler of 1980 's Hungry Heart : ‘ Got a wife and kids in Baltimore , Jack / I went out for a ride and I never went back ’ , but he never lets go like that here . |
| 30 | I 've been to see my mentor four times ! |