Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 2 | A National Curriculum must not enforce one rigid , prescriptive role on teachers , but allow them freedom to develop their own initiatives . |
| 3 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 4 | It 's Maui Waui , I got my surfer-ex to send me some . |
| 5 | I crawled out from under the back of the tractor just in case anybody thought to peer into the barn , and was about to use the lawn-mower for cover when my foot caught something hard and suddenly I was face down on the ground again . |
| 6 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 7 | ‘ No doubt you told yourself that you were only borrowing my money to pay your bloody gambling debts , but I call that theft ! ’ |
| 8 | I revise my decision to abandon my first lesson and ask Jack McKellar if any drivers are particularly to blame — business people , lorry drivers or journalists with three children ? |
| 9 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 10 | Next to him , I saw my mum push her grey hair from her temples . |
| 11 | My mum drinks it black , so . |
| 12 | I said , I 'll tell you what , I said er cos my mum lent me seven hundred |
| 13 | You saying my Mum sucks her own boobs ? |
| 14 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 15 | I designed my kitchen to complement its Gothic flavour . |
| 16 | And yes , how like my mind To make itself secure . |
| 17 | My glance allowed me sufficient time to register an abundance of well-washed hair , a rosy cheerful face , a loose-hanging tweed coat and heavily-patterned woollen stockings . |
| 18 | Erm the guy down who 's just done my my club earned himself eighteen hundred pound in one week and he paid about a hundred a twenty quid out for bed and breakfast . |
| 19 | Two white lone mothers in my study described their economic dependency on kin in this way : |
| 20 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 21 | There was still no sign of a life-raft and I advised Warton of my intention to drop our own dinghy . |
| 22 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 23 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 24 | Oh , Mademoiselle there 's a , there 's a simply enormous giant spider in my desk leave it alone , you 'll just knock it off stammered Mary-Lou quite pale . |
| 25 | And when I erm , first got them cos my granny got me some for a birthday present |
| 26 | My boss kept his cool and got the four . |
| 27 | ‘ My accident left my whole family crippled for life ’ |
| 28 | Can I find a way of being a teacher — can I see any role models — which allows a satisfactory compromise between my career ambitions , my wish to be a good subject teacher , my desire to promote my broader educational ideals , my intention to be a ‘ real person ’ as much as I can , and my commitment to improving the status and conditions of teaching as a profession ? |
| 29 | ‘ My art is based upon my desire to create my own realism , my wold as I see it . |
| 30 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |