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 . |