Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were much more variable , however , in 106 Gambian children in whom values spanned both normochlorhydria and achlorhydric ranges . |
| 2 | After gaining the necessary permissions to enter classrooms my freedom to follow up themes and issues discussed in interviews was very great . |
| 3 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
| 4 | It was my intention to carry out Charlie 's wishes and see that his share of the money was distributed equally between his three sisters . |
| 5 | And Tell My Horse weaves together rituals , stories and social comment into one of the most enjoyable and absorbing works I have ever read . |
| 6 | My feet find only forest vegetation , ground creepers . |
| 7 | My parents went absolutely nuts because all my family are coal miners — my grandfathers , my uncles — and the idea was that if you got a chance you did n't go down the pit , but I wanted to . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why my nose ended up flat against my face . ’ |
| 9 | My spaceship shone out light . |
| 10 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can . |
| 11 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 12 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 13 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 14 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 15 | A hundred yards east , in Jammet 's famous restaurant , my father pointed out Flann O'Brien scribbling with a pencil on the marble counter . ’ |
| 16 | I moved to a school in Herefordshire when my father closed down Avisford and moved to mid Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you have my secretary bring in coffee and find me fighting with my new PR consultant from London ? ’ |
| 18 | At Christmas most of my friends received either Amigas or a console ( mainly Mega Drives ) . |
| 19 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 20 | Why do the starlings in my garden pull up stalks of marjoram and fly off with them ? |
| 21 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
| 22 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 23 | I was sitting quietly in my office tidying up records when a duty nurse came in . |
| 24 | The fact that its Photocards lost only £494 — eliminating 98.9 per cent of the predicted fraud — made the headlines in dozens of British newspapers . |
| 25 | The workshop , which was the first of its kind to bring together producers from both Western and Eastern Europe , was organised by WACC 's European Region in cooperation with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 26 | They need not concern your Lordships , but , with section 6 , their presence explains why clause 12 corresponds to section 15 . |
| 27 | Few will be more welcome than the British , for we stood shoulder to shoulder with the Omanis in their struggle to beat off invaders and modernise their country . |
| 28 | Meera was a little nervous about having her hair coloured so Chris used the non-permanent Colour Touch . |
| 29 | It one thing to accept that she had no future with Harry and quite another to force her heart to give up hope , to stop loving him . |
| 30 | Her story shows how bulimics — doctors estimate Britain has 500,000 sufferers , including Princess Diana — binge on food , then vomit to purge their bodies of calories . |