Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 2 | When I came on deck to take my watch I found Viking swaying gently over a smooth swell , the cloud-wreathed Torridon mountains to port , and South Rona lighthouse fine on the starboard bow . |
| 3 | The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside . |
| 4 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 5 | She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her . |
| 6 | To her horror and my shame I free fell 20 feet , landing on my back next to her , and was unconscious for some time . |
| 7 | But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it . |
| 8 | My Lord I call Detective Constable . |
| 9 | My Lord I call Sergeant . |
| 10 | For the first time in my life I tasted champagne and I did not care for it very much because I was a complete and absolute non-drinker at the time , I would like to warn anybody that this was something which did not last for very long : I have since acquired an insatiable thirst and desire for champagne . |
| 11 | For the first time in my life it made sense . |
| 12 | For years throughout my childhood he exchanged Christmas letters with another ex-POW in New Zealand . |
| 13 | If I had my way I 'd X-ray just to make sure . |
| 14 | And Preston very tense behind the sofa , because when his nan called someone madam she meant business , and although he did n't know what adultery meant exactly he knew it was something smutty and another of the things the commandments came down pretty hard on . |
| 15 | Well , my mother I left school and me mother said , the Labour Exchanges had come into being , er this was nineteen nineteen , they were in existence in Nottingham . |
| 16 | On catching sight of me she threw up her head , and as I was not looking in her direction she stood stock still , as these animals have a habit of doing when they are under the impression that they have not been seen . |
| 17 | It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it . |
| 18 | The unit can be joined and led by an Orc or Goblin character , in which case you test leadership on the character 's value . |
| 19 | To her horror she came face to face with the two officers standing there with guns drawn . |
| 20 | And in her heart she allowed hope to blossom into fragile life again . |
| 21 | Or their boat you know boy she 's |
| 22 | When she used her typewriter she seemed intent on hammering holes in the paper . |
| 23 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 24 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 25 | For it would not be just her body he took possession of , but her heart and soul as well . |
| 26 | In their art they combined perspective with drawing ‘ by eye ’ ; they instinctively knew when to follow the rules and when to break them . |
| 27 | With her father she matched sympathy for disaffected working men with devotion to the cause of West Indian freedmen , American slaves and the indigenous population of India . |
| 28 | Peering along its barrel he saw blood foaming around the cow 's mouth and heard clearly the tortured rasp of its breath between each anguished bellow . |
| 29 | From this time until the end of her life she kept house for her father , and took some hand in his affairs . |
| 30 | Her sheer emotional and physical energy nevertheless took its physical toll , and at various times in her life she abused alcohol and drugs as well as notching up a significant number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness . |