Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 2 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 3 | The British nurse interrupted my sad ponderings when she returned to my room in great agitation . |
| 4 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 5 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 6 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 7 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 8 | Kylie said : ‘ I used to design all my own clothes when I was younger , when I was 15 , 16 . |
| 9 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 10 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 11 | I was worrying how to break it to my own children when I was saved . |
| 12 | The last thing I thought I would talk about was my christian beliefs why I am here today why I am a doctor and what God means to me . |
| 13 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 14 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 15 | She had such a morbid fear of letting down her husband and the royal family ‘ firm ’ that she performed her official duties when she was quite clearly unwell . |
| 16 | Fishlock took a candid historical look at Sellafield from its early days when it was ‘ a motley collection of stained concrete hulks ’ . |
| 17 | Laura grinned as she recalled her early teens when she and Liz , together with their school-friend Julie , had spent the holidays climbing trees , swimming , and bicycling around the beautiful Devonshire countryside . |
| 18 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 19 | In the rear of their hut his wife was bending over a bowl of water , naked to the waist , washing herself , and she snatched up a towel to cover her bare breasts when she heard Loc hiss a sudden warning . |
| 20 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 21 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 22 | However , her first feelings when she was sent there were of betrayal and resentment . |
| 23 | It is on the face of it a very simple amendment to a quite a small and in some sense insignificant piece of legislation that is n't , erm I hope members would agree that by changing that piece of legislation to say that if you 're a trader you must display who you are and how people can get hold of you if the have a problem about products they buy from you , will not be too burdensome erm in these days of deregulation and so forth but on the other hand would help enforcements considerably and would also enable people to pursue their own remedies where they are dissatisfied with what they bought . |
| 24 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 25 | The Americans have learned to bring in their big guns whenever they need them . |
| 26 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 27 | She was left to her own devices when she arrived , no-one from the royal family least of all her future husband , thinking it necessary to welcome her to her new world . |
| 28 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 29 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 30 | There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out . |