Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight 's , eight 's about my highest I 've got . |
| 2 | I got it for my eighteenth you see . |
| 3 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 4 | But for their own they put their hands on their hearts . |
| 5 | a room of my own I think it was , it |
| 6 | Although they had no children of their own they did adopt a baby girl from the convalescent home for children at Morris Grange . |
| 7 | The A S L E N F , they were a different they had a kno they had a sectional council of their own you see , for local men . |
| 8 | And after that brief excursion into the mysterious tongue of her beloved she said very little else for a considerable time . |
| 9 | Her hand drifted to the back of his head and without any conscious decision of her own it pressed lightly to bring his mouth to her aching , demanding breast . |
| 10 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 12 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 13 | He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee . |
| 14 | He wondered how much of his own he had left . |
| 15 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 16 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 17 | There follows a step-by-step account of our own build-it experiences . |
| 18 | gon na get a couple of he ah ah tapes that we had ruined of our own I said no . |
| 19 | But all through my twenties and into my thirties I swore quite testily that I would never have children . |
| 20 | Yeah , I mean I do n't know how powerful they were that , I mean he were n't , he were n't belting on those but there was , he was playing loud enough to appreciate with its own you know |
| 21 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 22 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 23 | I mean we 're so busy with our own we do n't really you know we do n't we do n't feel at all upstaged by the lodge I think you know we just work together really you know because it makes sense you know I do n't think there 's no big |
| 24 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 25 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 26 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |
| 27 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 28 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 29 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 30 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |