Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 2 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 3 | The debates side-stepped into discussions of desire in some areas , maintaining some political divisions between women and creating new ones , while the strongest artworks which imaged women 's bodies came from those for whom visibility was still a fundamental issue , particularly black women . |
| 4 | My 5-year-old is now a regular ‘ discloser ’ : she loves using her black tablets — she strips to the skin first ( could n't find any to match the bathroom ! ) |
| 5 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
| 6 | When Mrs Jones says : ‘ My Johnny is really a good boy but got to running around with the wrong bunch and got into trouble ’ , she is making a set of assumptions which , when spelled out more explicitly , constitute the foundations of an important school of thought in the scientific study of juvenile delinquency . |
| 7 | Harvey said , ‘ My ambition is exactly the reverse . ’ |
| 8 | It was about a week later and my leathers were still a little ruffled after the grating incident when I saw him sitting all alone in the waiting room . |
| 9 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 10 | My reply was always the same : ‘ Just read the papers and it will come naturally . ’ |
| 11 | But actually I 'm com quite quite pleased with my body at the moment , my legs are still a bit skinny but apart from that I 'm doing okay I think ? |
| 12 | my legs were never the least bit apart — |
| 13 | Be warned , both of you , though , my hacienda is almost a kingdom . |
| 14 | Thank you very much , er I ca n't carry along because you want to stop me , but if I were capable of telling , I 'd say my attitude is still the same as it was before . |
| 15 | ‘ My attitude is still the same as it was at the beginning of the 1986–87 season and that is , if I can continue to contribute then I 'm happy to do so . ’ |
| 16 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 17 | This photograph on my desk is now an object for me in virtue of my perceiving experience . |
| 18 | And I 'm finding now that my grandchildren are just the same . |
| 19 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 20 | energy council , I 'm not make a bid , we 've just , er we 've just heard , what I think is a , is an example of enlightened and model practice , so praise is on the superfluous , but I think we 're probably not typical of of the business sector in being so enlightened , and my question is only a wide one , and it is this . |
| 21 | The granny table where I ate my toast was now a cocktail cabinet , with studded plastic , three high stools , a Manhattan skyline of siphons and shakers . |
| 22 | There 's the excitement of birthday cards in a new house , and a new school where my classroom is again a hut with a wood stove . |
| 23 | My opponent was much the same height , build and temperament ; we stood toe to toe and swapped blow for blow . |
| 24 | To my right was still a morass of broken glass , brickbats and son-of-metal-pipe ( good things always happen in pairs do n't you find ? ) , all under three inches of water . |
| 25 | My record was merely an extension of that vast range to the south side of the Black Sea . |
| 26 | my husband was here a fortnight ago , Duncan . |
| 27 | ‘ My husband was never a particular friend of yours , was he ? ’ |
| 28 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 29 | In may respects , my shop is just the opposite , although I certainly have a health foods section , as do many delicatessens . |
| 30 | At first glance her remark seems true enough , but my feelings were quite the opposite . |