Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In my neighbourhood I can hear a sampling of Spanish , Portuguese , Chinese , Urdu , Polish , Italian and West Indian English when I take my children across the street to the park . |
| 32 | " None of my crew would , I 'd know instantly , " I told him , " I 'm a non-smoker and if anybody smoked in my aircraft I would know at once . |
| 33 | They just cut themselves off , living behind huge walls and barbed wire , whereas to my mind they should feel a certain responsibility to the place . |
| 34 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 35 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 36 | ‘ There 's no doubt in my mind it will happen — it 's just a question of when . ’ |
| 37 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 38 | And she said , ‘ George Dionisovich , at the moment I do n't want to sell them , but if I change my mind I 'll let you know ’ . |
| 39 | Yeah you 're talking about a dream , because er in my mind I can hear George now in a bar lounge I walked in , he was with two of his mates and we got talking , he said here 's my , this is m he used to say Chip then , you know , George did this is my young Chip he said he goes to work in the middle of the night . |
| 40 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 41 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 42 | Like I said , nine out of ten if I touch my brakes they 'll drop back and if they do n't then there ai n't nothing I 'm gon na do that 's gon na make them drop back . |
| 43 | BELVILLE : Now you are on my side I will leave you . |
| 44 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 45 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 47 | He said : ‘ The matter has been referred to my insurers who will contact the company 's previous insurers . ’ |
| 48 | From my seat I could see your profile . |
| 49 | When the Arabic word would come roughly out of my mouth she 'd correct and correct — ‘ La , la ’ — ‘ No , no ’ — and would carefully mouth the right pronunciation . |
| 50 | If I open my mouth I 'll end up screaming , she was thinking . |
| 51 | ‘ We could share the driving and drive sedately through Germany , ’ she amended with a smirk of a glance to where Fabia was grinning , ‘ and once I 've done my interview we could make a holiday of it — stay longer , have a tour around . |
| 52 | She said that if I stood in my doorway I could see her face , for the girl was not veiled . |
| 53 | ‘ If it concerns one of my clients you must appreciate my position is quite clear . ’ |
| 54 | By the wings of Draconius , when I 've sharpened my axe you 'll suffer the same fate as Whiplash ! |
| 55 | ‘ What 's my due I shall have , and today . ’ |
| 56 | They were a bit away from the Rice Crispie hole type of thing but if I 'd have used my eyes I would have noticed where they were . |
| 57 | If I open my eyes I 'll fall into the sky ! ’ |
| 58 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 59 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |
| 60 | High up on the wall of my cell I could see where somebody had written his name with a pencil . |