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 . |