Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 2 | My guitar has an undersaddle Ashworth transducer . |
| 3 | Almost an hour passed with my heart thumping every time the door of number four opened . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Call me … call me , Mr Kawasaki , ’ I said , and , like my old generator , my heart skipped a bound . |
| 6 | My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back . |
| 7 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 8 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 9 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 10 | My heart missed a beat … ’ |
| 11 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 12 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 13 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 14 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |
| 15 | Handwriting , I could make my handwriting neater , larger , I could try joining my handwriting have the letters joined , some people are still more comfortable printing in year seven . |
| 16 | Conscious that it would be very much to my advantage to have an ally within Alison 's gates , I replied warmly , ‘ Me too . ’ |
| 17 | My grant covered the school fees only , and no provision was made for other necessities . |
| 18 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |
| 19 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 20 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 21 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 22 | and in our my case give a zero or or an infinite , I 'm not sure which way round they 'd do it erm tax coding which I find |
| 23 | When Prince is the master of all he sees , when everything he touches turns to gold when he 's the supreme seducer — that 's when my admiration knows no bounds , that cool is why he TOWERS in our imagination way , way above those meagre souls who statistically and fiscally dwarf him . |
| 24 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 25 | Other sorts of things can constrain my actions too , of course ; I may not be able on my income to afford a Ferrari . |
| 26 | The following day my foot resembled a rugby ball with little pink sausages sticking out , but somebody had to dig the dogs out . |
| 27 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 28 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 29 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 30 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |