Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
| 2 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 3 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 4 | I am going to supper with my former Port Manager colleague , , and a lifelong friend of his called , who is also retired but spend her working life dedicated to teaching and helping spastics . |
| 5 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 6 | The enterprise is run by my former TV presenter rival , Jeremy Carrad . |
| 7 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 8 | I WOULD like your readers to know that I am aware of their letters to Sunday Life and their concern about money owing to them by my former company C H Enterprises . |
| 9 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
| 10 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Very well , ’ answered the wife , ‘ and it always reminds me of my former Croydon neighbour , Pam Hook , who also taught Medau . ’ |
| 12 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 13 | Quite independently my former colleague Gilbert Kelling had come to the conclusion that certain sediments in the stratigraphical record can be best interpreted in terms of violent storms . |
| 14 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 15 | The small gathering included my former colleague Guy Thomas , who had left the company when the ownership changed from TWW to HTV . |
| 16 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 17 | However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project . |
| 18 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 19 | Inspired by pictures of grand herb gardens , I grew some herbs from seeds and cuttings , to set up my own herb garden in front of our semi-detached house . |
| 20 | Example 99 , from my own Organ Symphony , combines two streams of fourth chords , mostly in counter-parallel motion . |
| 21 | My own understanding of the role of services in the lives of disabled people has developed , and in the light of this I have reviewed my own working practices . |
| 22 | In the same year that the Library Association produced its Supplement and the Schools Council published my own Working Paper 43 , the School Library Association published its Libraries in secondary schools ( Morris et at . |
| 23 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 24 | When I was approached to become a member of the group interested in ‘ the teaching of practical skills in biology ’ , I was only too pleased to become involved as I had been concerned , for some time , about my own teaching skills and strategies used in the classroom situation . |
| 25 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
| 26 | Within my own panel courts have agreed to adjourn hearings , and make an order for a short period of time to enable a more thorough assessment . |
| 27 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 28 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 29 | I am not concerned in what the next man thinks and does , that is his business but I must do what my own conscience dictates . |
| 30 | I do n't know if I 'd want to stay in teaching , I 'd quite like to have my own nursery school . |