Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum nearly said shit yesterday , a nervous breakdown . |
| 2 | My sister never gave twopence for convention either . ’ |
| 3 | On the day in question I attended at Buckingham Palace and was received by Lord Plunket , and to my delight also found Lady Susan Hussey , who was the Lady-in-Waiting and the wife of my old friend Duke Hussey . |
| 4 | ‘ My reaction finally helped Matthew to understand how much I love him . ’ |
| 5 | My yell nearly made Mal jump out of her pouch-seat . |
| 6 | ‘ My father never had time for me . |
| 7 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |
| 8 | ‘ Get off this boat , ’ I told him , but my anger only amused Sweetman who unfolded his long thin legs from the cushioned thwart . |
| 9 | My grandfather never left Cornwall in the whole of his life . |
| 10 | My son always had dolls and his favourite toy is a doll 's house . |
| 11 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 12 | My mother still had Christmas cards from them to the end of her life . |
| 13 | She seemed calm and peaceful , and a few minutes in her presence soon cheered Mr Wolski up . |
| 14 | The award — one of the highest of its type ever made Ulster — was ordered after an industrial tribunal heard how Patricia Knox was subjected to four ‘ coldly manoeuvred ’ assaults within three hours . |
| 15 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 16 | Its influence even reached Maya centres in the Yucatan Peninsula , Guatemala and Belize and neighbouring parts of Honduras and El Salvador . |
| 17 | It rather looked like Her Maj quite liked Neil Kinnock . |
| 18 | This fact would be useful for Essay A as Moltke was responsible for the military brilliance of the Prussians in the period and with Room for the restructuring of the army , which crisis also brought Bismarck to power on 23rd September 1862 . |
| 19 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 20 | In this anaemic echo of her own box on the Moon , her body still had substance . |
| 21 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 22 | Their departure effectively left UNITA as an entirely Ovimbundu movement . |
| 23 | In the traditional archive the storage of documents and their use usually took place at one location , but this need not be the pattern of organisation maintained for electronic archives . |
| 24 | Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion . |
| 25 | ‘ Not for ages ; I should n't think we 'll see him this side of Christmas , ’ her mother cheerfully squashed Leith 's hopes — Christmas was seven months away ! |
| 26 | The crew were inspected by the Queen whose corgie unfortunately chased Magie 's gerbils and atem . |
| 27 | During the inter-war years attention shifted from the physical development of both infant and potential mother to the psychological needs of the child , whose satisfaction immediately became part of the prescribed duties of mothers . |
| 28 | He told Victor his story then asked Victor to make a female monster but Victor , after agreeing to make the woman , did n't keep his promise . |
| 29 | His glance briefly included Melissa , but settled , beaming , on Iris . |
| 30 | The terms of reference for his review explicitly allowed Mr Large to call for a new act . |