Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My views affect me as a person .
2 I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps .
3 I strain my ears to hear it , like distant music ; my eyes see it as a very bright light very far away .
4 My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’
5 The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell .
6 my Daddy tip it over my skin
7 My studies lead me to the conclusion that the Biro , as with many other forms of ‘ inanimate object ’ , hates its role in life .
8 As regards res as my friend put it in opening ,
9 I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition .
10 He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ .
11 My masters expect me to be hunting for news . ’
12 This is what my friends tell me from a side view .
13 I do n't feel black and I do n't think my friends regard me as such .
14 This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’
15 While her investigations take her into history and communication networks , one sequence in particular carries metafictional implications .
16 Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training .
17 Its rules restrict it to lending on property which encourages self-sufficiency , the ecologically efficient use of land and the saving of non-renewable resources .
18 They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs .
19 Their shells provide them with valuable protection but like all armoured species they are at certain disadvantages — they are nearly always less mobile , less flexible , and suffer the consequences .
20 Her eyes hold me like magnets .
21 Children who witness sexual intercourse in the first few years of their lives see it as a sort of ill-treatment , an assault by the man on the woman ; ‘ they view it that is in a sadistic sense ’ .
22 By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way .
23 There are only two network providers — Cellnet and Vodafone — and as their licences prevent them from dealing directly with end users , this role is fulfilled by the service providers .
24 Her class members thank her for the years of enjoyment she has given them ; her fellow-teachers thank her for her constant support and friendship .
25 People who show their dogs expose them to many new forms of stimuli .
26 Their actions distinguish them from one another .
27 Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it .
28 Their seniors bestow it with increasing effectiveness as their seniority increases .
29 Their fates concern us in reality no more than those of other independent states which were never British dominions .
30 If the local authority do not have a list of housing associations in their area ask them for the address of the regional office of the Housing Corporation , who can give you a list .
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