Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 3 | She cut corners , gave them short-term memories borrowed from a pair of marshals she had Dreamed for Neutrino Junction , and had them limit their thoughts to immediate matters . |
| 4 | Age and income are strongly related in almost all samples , and the Social Attitudes Survey is no exception , as figure 13.3 shows ; the exact age of the earnings high point varies , but for almost everyone old age brings with it a diminution of income . |
| 5 | People have brought their cars to my advice surgery to show me burnt paintwork caused by soot deposits . |
| 6 | It was not undertaken in 11 of those who had been subject to suffocation , five referred before the po 2 monitor was available , four patients >1 year with infrequent events , two for whom social problems resulted in a prolonged hospital stay , and one who died before admission . |
| 7 | My conflicting thoughts argued with each other from pavement to pavement . |
| 8 | To my surprise my Working Group insisted after a lively debate that we kept the weighting at 33⅓ per cent for 14 year olds . |
| 9 | I did my usual tap dancing on the table , but actually had quite a good time . |
| 10 | ‘ I was doing my usual Tuesday clean for you , Chris , when the phone rang . |
| 11 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 12 | My adoptive mother came from Tyneside . |
| 13 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 14 | My aim is to get my Private Pilots Licence by the end of the year , but we shall see . |
| 15 | My grateful thanks go to them all . |
| 16 | Is my Liturgical Evocation based on experience the group have shared ? |
| 17 | My right foot hovered over the accelerator pedal and I balanced Armstrong on the clutch . |
| 18 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 19 | His face shrank into lines of hostility and I felt my right knee twitching with anger inside my trouser-leg . |
| 20 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
| 21 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 22 | If my dear father believed in the hereafter , and all the good and intelligent clergymen we have met in our lives do so too , then I am quite confident . ’ |
| 23 | I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . |
| 24 | My broken finger hurt like hell . |
| 25 | As I released my martyrhood and ambivalence over money , my old fears vanished into the air . |
| 26 | I have more than enough , my old love saw to it I was comfortable . |
| 27 | My old man works at Dunlop and he wants to make sure we [ he and his brothers and sisters ] do better than that . |
| 28 | I shall be staying here and I shall fight back just like my old man did at Dunkirk . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 30 | ‘ When I had my first implant , sir , ’ the soldier confessed , ‘ my old woman said to me , Frinza , he said , get yourself in the army soon as you can , boy . |