Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 2 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 3 | The British nurse interrupted my sad ponderings when she returned to my room in great agitation . |
| 4 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 5 | my important things now I 'm running with a batch file . |
| 6 | During my first hours there I was severely tortured . |
| 7 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 8 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 9 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 10 | Kylie said : ‘ I used to design all my own clothes when I was younger , when I was 15 , 16 . |
| 11 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 12 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 13 | I was worrying how to break it to my own children when I was saved . |
| 14 | The last thing I thought I would talk about was my christian beliefs why I am here today why I am a doctor and what God means to me . |
| 15 | On her odd nights off she still managed to keep some of the barracks satisfied . |
| 16 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 17 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 18 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 19 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 20 | She had such a morbid fear of letting down her husband and the royal family ‘ firm ’ that she performed her official duties when she was quite clearly unwell . |
| 21 | A lot of Verity Lambert 's involvement at ABC TV had been in the realm of scripts , hence in their early days together she and David Whitaker worked very closely in the selecting of Doctor Who stories and the nature of their content . |
| 22 | Fishlock took a candid historical look at Sellafield from its early days when it was ‘ a motley collection of stained concrete hulks ’ . |
| 23 | Laura grinned as she recalled her early teens when she and Liz , together with their school-friend Julie , had spent the holidays climbing trees , swimming , and bicycling around the beautiful Devonshire countryside . |
| 24 | The reason for this is straightforward , since if the established firm is in the position of already having sunk its fixed costs then it is naturally in a better position than the potential entrant , because the cost of the equipment is irrelevant to the decision as to whether to produce . |
| 25 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 26 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 27 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 28 | 2 Chron 7.14 — ‘ If my people , who are called by My Name , will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land . ’ |
| 29 | If she 's got half an ounce of cool in her beautiful bones then she 'll get wise . |
| 30 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |