Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fingers my red rose brooch . |
| 2 | ‘ There goes my one moment of glory ’ , he said , after reading that he had lost . |
| 3 | If it 's not one who supplies my regular retailer I wo n't buy the fish . |
| 4 | He 's a friend , he understands my special needs . |
| 5 | He snatches my two dollar tip like a starving dog , and tucks it deep into his pocket . |
| 6 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 8 | The woman Rebecca , my father 's childless and rejected wife , haunts my early years . |
| 9 | What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change . |
| 10 | It destroys my digestive system . |
| 11 | She needs my naughty lullabies to soothe her spirit . ’ |
| 12 | John wants my total involvement . |
| 13 | I reckon he wants my working-class experience to give his puerile political ideas some authenticity . ’ |
| 14 | Now it wants my red spoon but the Monster 's passion is as boundless as it is evil . |
| 15 | That er concludes my little contribution to the evening 's entertainment . |
| 16 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , this article only reinforces my previous observations . |
| 18 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 19 | It contains my favourite things — a lot of junk really ! |
| 20 | In this sense of the term , my mental life contains my knowing things , and remembering things , and seeing things . |
| 21 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 22 | He again holds my lower stomach . |
| 23 | The Board has my warm support in its task of gathering together all Catholic women 's organisations and listening to their varied voices . |
| 24 | wife of the vicar in Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield ; ‘ my warm heart ’ quoted from her ‘ Miss Carolina Skeggs … has my warm heart ’ ( chap . |
| 25 | Wherever she may be now , on this earth or not , she has my eternal gratitude . |
| 26 | Has my wee china been a good boy ? |
| 27 | My hon. Friend has my full assurance . |
| 28 | … your article has my full support . |
| 29 | Has my hon. Friend reflected on the likely effect of Labour 's policy to establish a minimum wage of £3.20 per hour for every 16-year-old — and , indeed , on the effect on recruitment to the armed forces if defence spending were reduced by 50 per cent ? |
| 30 | Bearing in mind the need to keep the business rate down , has my hon. Friend had time to glance at a pamphlet entitled ’ The Citizens ' Charter ’ , written in 1921 by one Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party , which states that the best way to improve local services is to increase competition ? |