Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can come back and see Josh in the morning — but do n't think you can march in here and wheedle your way back into my heart in half an hour — not this time ! ’ |
| 2 | He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Quite my favourite of all the Kalman operettas , ’ he said enthusiastically . |
| 4 | He would give £5 to my mum for all the cooking and £5 to my father and £5 to my uncle . |
| 5 | The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation . |
| 6 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 7 | I 'm sitting here at the computer even now , with images flashing into my mind of all the spots I want to go to , but have n't had the opportunity yet . |
| 8 | ‘ It will be a pleasure to share my home with such a gentleman . ’ |
| 9 | At the time of my retirement in 1983 the new scheme was being fully implemented with our officers being enrolled at the Warsash school of Navigation . |
| 10 | Confound it , who am I to hold up my nose in such a fashion ? |
| 11 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 12 | Just because I do n't go around laughing my head off all the time or … or spending money on bunches of flowers too big to fit into the car , it does not mean that I am cross . ’ |
| 13 | Darcy focuses his own feelings on an Eritrean woman , a ‘ splendid bureaucrat ’ now based in Frankfurt but currently visiting the front line to renew her networks of information , and dreams hazily of a future sexual relationship with her until he discovers that she had once undergone , at the hands of the Dergue , such stomach-churning extremes of physical torture that ‘ my distance from such a height of anguish disqualified me . ’ |
| 14 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |
| 15 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 16 | Reg gave his life and soul to this club , plus an extra 110 per cent per match , but unfortunately he chose to undermine my authority in such a way that I was forced to demand his dismissal by the board . |
| 17 | ‘ And do n't forget , I was by then dominated by my aunt to such an extent that I would n't have dared . |
| 18 | Glancing at the ‘ who duz wot ’ bit has been my wont for many an aeon , I spotted an absence . |
| 19 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 20 | L. DARNFORD : Well , I never heard of such grave folks in my life on such an occasion . |
| 21 | After you 'd arrived in my life with such a bang I had no intention of letting you walk straight out again . ’ |
| 22 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 23 | ‘ Give me my bill , ’ I said to the man behind the desk , ‘ and bring down my suitcase in half an hour . ’ |
| 24 | Give my love to all the girls . |
| 25 | To abuse my hospitality in such a way , take advantage of my trust — never enter this house again , I will have the servants throw you in the street — ’ |
| 26 | He lay there dead , his blood soaking my shoulder for half an hour . |
| 27 | I made my way through all the guard checkpoints and got to the Hotel Intourist in the middle of town at about 11 o'clock when David and Geoffrey were just siting down to lunch . |
| 28 | I 'm reading my way through all the daddy 's books . |
| 29 | I soon found my way around both the broad boulevards and reeking , rat-infested alleyways . |
| 30 | After a while , the bullying at school did n't affect me too much , and I was in my element with all the wildlife around me . |