Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't ask the fuzz the time if it would save me old granny 's life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But my chairman and vice-chairman have given me another year 's contract , and I 'm absolutely delighted to be staying at Nottingham Forest . |
| 3 | You 'll have to give me plenty of notice , mind , me social diary 's chocka . ’ |
| 4 | Much has been made of the ‘ feminine shape ’ of My Bloody Valentine 's music , and this also extends to the ‘ wombadelia ’ of Spiritualized and the neutered fumblings of the shoe-gazers and much of the second division of indie rock . |
| 5 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 6 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 7 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 8 | My dear mother 's optimism had to be heard to be believed . |
| 9 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 10 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 11 | He favoured her with a slightly haggard smile , but his voice was dry and laboured as he said : ‘ I 'm delighted to meet my old friend 's niece . |
| 12 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 13 | They 've dug up a lot of human bones at my old uncle 's house … ‘ |
| 14 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |
| 15 | ‘ That was my old man 's regiment . ’ |
| 16 | Wish you were cos you could go in my old man 's place . |
| 17 | It was politically unsound , and that was my old band 's argument against it ’ — Norman Cook |
| 18 | When he was only twenty , people found him ‘ an odd fellow , a bear , a young man out of the ordinary ’ ; and even before his epileptic seizure and confinement at Croisset , the image had established itself : ‘ I am a bear and I want to stay a bear in my den , in my lair , in my skin , in my old bear 's skin ; I want to live quietly , far away from the bourgeois and the bourgeoises . |
| 19 | My favourite thing I like , my favourite subject 's chemistry . |
| 20 | As a member of the Procedure Committee , I was one of those who urged — not least at my hon. Friend 's insistence — that the House should once again be able to see the answers to parliamentary questions on social security matters . |
| 21 | I strongly support my hon. Friend 's request for a statement . |
| 22 | I entirely agree with my hon. Friend 's emphasis on the involvement of the IMF in the economic reconstruction of Russia and the other republics of the CIS . |
| 23 | It is a finely balanced argument and so far we have not been persuaded by my hon. Friend 's case . |
| 24 | We shall draw the attention of the business community , especially small businesses , which are such an important part of the economy in my hon. Friend 's part of the world , to the policies being espoused by the Labour party and make some estimate — if the Labour party will not do so , we certainly will — of the real burdens that they would place on business and the devastating impact that they would have on self-employment and employment throughout the country . |
| 25 | My Hon. Friend 's message to the bishops will certainly be noted . |
| 26 | However , I do not accept my Hon. Friend 's contention that some of these matters must be discussed after 10 pm , but I am afraid that they will continue to have to be so . |
| 27 | I do not share my hon. Friend 's contention that one should support national wage bargaining . |
| 28 | I am aware of my hon. Friend 's expertise on this subject and his concern about it . |
| 29 | I entirely understand my hon. Friend 's anxiety on that point . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend 's successor will have a hard act to follow : the diligence and commitment that my hon. Friend has given to his constituents have been exemplary . |