Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think myself invincible , strong , all the weaknesses ironed out , or subdued , it shook me rigid to discover my total vulnerability where you were concerned . |
| 2 | Not only am I happy to join my hon. Friend in congratulating that successful exporter , but I congratulate my hon. Friend on the energetic and effective way in which he has supported Beloit Walmsley in winning those contracts . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Speaker , ’ swooned James Paice , a Tory backbencher from Cambridgeshire , ‘ can I first welcome my Honourable Friend to her first question time ? ’ |
| 4 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 5 | When I first saw her black and white photographs using animal parts compiled into a series of hunters ' trophies , I was certainly put off from visiting this exhibition . |
| 6 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 7 | You were hardly in a cheerful frame of mind when I first met you this morning . |
| 8 | When I first met my Working Group I was astonished to discover that they were far more progressive in outlook than the members of the Kingman Committee . |
| 9 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |
| 10 | This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ . |
| 11 | I think I was a little disappointed by the countryside in the north of Lewis when I first encountered its bleak wilderness of peat bog , but after a while I was to know and love the open moors . |
| 12 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 13 | I do my best to hide my real feelings from others |
| 14 | I last had one some five years ago , and have n't been able to get hold of one since . |
| 15 | ‘ I last saw her eight days before she was found . |
| 16 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 17 | In order to do this ESCA divides the country into 16 regions which each runs its own mini tournament . |
| 18 | His portraits of Terence Rattigan , Ralph Richardson and Peter Ustinov capture in their concentrated poses their innate intelligence and creative flair . |
| 19 | Bernie and her father had each , in their own way , released her from the weight of obligation , setting her free to choose her own path . |
| 20 | Their crashing echoed my trembling , my fear , my disgust . |
| 21 | Despite this association with one of the central families of the emergent Tory party Banks soon showed himself willing to extend his financial activities to the post-Revolution Whig governments . |
| 22 | There was glycerine as well as the whey powder and starch which all added their individual contribution to the success and shelf-life of the cake . |
| 23 | Regimental quartermasters , or whatever you think of , whatever , whatever they called in the Signals , in regiments , their regimental called them that . |
| 24 | He is a bit embarrassed by this category because , despite its ‘ archaic ’ elements , he finds himself unable to deny its authentic power . |
| 25 | Though his compositions won many prizes internationally , Tan says that gradually , he found himself unable to express his real self . |
| 26 | He must have ordered them by telephone when he 'd found himself unable to contact her direct . |
| 27 | While their full Udders her broad Hands Assail , |
| 28 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 29 | Even when an outright transfer is made , problems can also arise , as women on their own find it difficult to meet the mortgage repayments . |
| 30 | Knitters were pressed to rent the stocking frames and those who owned their own found it hard to get work when times were less busy . |