Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week .
2 At a hundred and eighty pounds , standing on my right at a hundred and eighty pounds , are you all done ?
3 Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses .
4 I fought my hardest for the Dutch prisoners before the Privy Council this morning , but the tribunal was hopelessly divided , and the anti-Boers prevailed over the pro-Boers .
5 Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League .
6 FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England .
7 Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games .
8 ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man :
9 I 've proved I can still hold my own with the best . ’
10 I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas .
11 As I undo the hooks , I catch a fingernail and it dangles from my own by a thin string of adhesive .
12 I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world .
13 I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’
14 Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ?
15 The figures are based on my own in the 1970s and now bear no relation to the present day , but they serve as a broad outline .
16 now I 'm up here all on my own in the higher class !
17 However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods .
18 Emil briefly consulted a notebook , stowed his travel bag on a rack in a small bedroom and directed me to put my big in the one next door .
19 I have done my best with the Scottish Sports Council 's questionnaires that you sent down , and enclose a copy of my covering letter for your information .
20 ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result .
21 With people in the field such as Don Quarrie and a Mike McFarlane near the peak of his form , I would have had to better my best by a considerable margin to succeed .
22 The pope 's influence was at its greatest in the papal fiefs , where the kings became his vassals .
23 The former power was not entirely diminished , and its lingering potential threat was at its greatest in the Populist movement of the 1880s .
24 The banks write off the fraud within their accounts but our pricing has to take account of it , so ultimately its borne by the general public .
25 The suspended despair inside her splintered into a shuddering sob and Fernando tightened his hold on her .
26 Heather Calzini spent thousands of pounds looking for Milliegrey , worth around £60,000 and pregnant when she was taken from her stable in the dead of night .
27 Like her failure to realise , or even to care , that her indifference to other people 's convenience and comfort could eventually leave her friendless in a cold world .
28 Get her interested in the male sex .
29 JULIE-ANN , 18 , needs someone to keep her sane during the long winter months .
30 She clasped her hands in excitement , every inch of her suffused with an irrepressible happiness .
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