Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Very well , ’ answered the wife , ‘ and it always reminds me of my former Croydon neighbour , Pam Hook , who also taught Medau . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Example 99 , from my own Organ Symphony , combines two streams of fourth chords , mostly in counter-parallel motion . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ — weaving my own bed linen and keeping bees and putting up preserves . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | I do n't know if I 'd want to stay in teaching , I 'd quite like to have my own nursery school . |
| 19 | ‘ The Mysteries of Greathaven are famed even in the far distant streets of my own home town … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 21 | For example , I have found in my own reading research that a specialist bibliography entitled Readers and Library Users , by Martin Ward , has been very helpful in making me aware of research studies that I had not come across before . |
| 22 | I have my own antiques business . ’ |
| 23 | I said , well , I really feel I can lead my own company section , I forgot Andrea was coming . |
| 24 | As a businessman , it would be foolhardy of me to pour my own money nilly-willy into the club and so I am constantly on the look-out for companies willing to risk investing in a lowly but forward-looking team . |
| 25 | I I 'm buying my own race track ! |
| 26 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 27 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 28 | I occasionally buy an item to add to my own stamp collection but I 'm not committed to keeping it complete . |
| 29 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 30 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |