Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 32 | What if I had a 90 per cent chance of surviving , but my child had a similar chance of being badly handicapped ? |
| 33 | How will I know that my child has a fair chance at Compact opportunities ? |
| 34 | The majority opted for the visit and in my opinion made a good choice . |
| 35 | People like myself , would n't have had the bottle , would n't have dreamed of coming up here if it had n't been for the good work of people like Mike and Harry , who in my opinion do a superb job in training me , you , all of us in this union . |
| 36 | A bonfire on the beach tonight when it 'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love . |
| 37 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 38 | My group has a good sense of teamwork . |
| 39 | For most of the women in Inventing Ourselves ambiguity proved a treacherous friend , blurring , obscuring , distorting and denying . |
| 40 | Oh yes , I used to be known in , in , in , in my area as the kitchen man , you know , and sort of , people used to talk in the pubs and they 'd say , oh well you know , my missus wants a new kitchen . |
| 41 | ( Although it could turn into ‘ My lad played a blinder for St Noggins U13 B team yesterday ’ I suppose . ) |
| 42 | I promised Claudia that my desperate need for a child was a magical , elemental desire , a sunny , smiling commitment to placing myself in time , a responsible appreciation of the ultimate inevitable selflessness of being alive , and acknowledgement of my need to escape a sorry hedonism , a way to face up to the past and accept the future . |
| 43 | Conservative landslide : I stand on my doorstep wearing a tired grin , hair boyishly tousled , while a group of neighbours points hand-held tape recorders at me respectfully . |
| 44 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 45 | Janet added : ‘ My husband had a wicked sense of humour and had to have the last laugh in life and death . |
| 46 | I became concerned when I saw my husband becoming a different person . |
| 47 | ‘ My husband has a new job but he is unable to start work because he can not leave Oman . |
| 48 | My husband wanted a little bit on the side |
| 49 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 50 | Except that my nose stopped a terrible blow ; |
| 51 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 52 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 53 | Into my head rushes a total insanity — no thought processes occur — the voice comes … and it 's there — complete : this is the voice of dead Cymbeline , who is five years old — sorry , six now . |
| 54 | And then I got it into my head to try a little art . |
| 55 | But they were kind : the man roused himself at my request to hammer a protruding nail in my shoe that had caused me discomfort , the woman interrupted her knitting to refill my pot of tea and make sure the meal was to my liking . |
| 56 | On the lacrosse pitches my behaviour took a similar turn . |
| 57 | ‘ I remember my gran ate a bad winkle once . ’ |
| 58 | My constituency fills a broad canvas . |
| 59 | I raise this matter also because my constituency has a high percentage of unfit housing . |
| 60 | My constituency includes a large community of Sikhs from the Punjab in India . |