Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 2 | ‘ No doubt you told yourself that you were only borrowing my money to pay your bloody gambling debts , but I call that theft ! ’ |
| 3 | I revise my decision to abandon my first lesson and ask Jack McKellar if any drivers are particularly to blame — business people , lorry drivers or journalists with three children ? |
| 4 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 5 | Next to him , I saw my mum push her grey hair from her temples . |
| 6 | You saying my Mum sucks her own boobs ? |
| 7 | I designed my kitchen to complement its Gothic flavour . |
| 8 | Two white lone mothers in my study described their economic dependency on kin in this way : |
| 9 | There was still no sign of a life-raft and I advised Warton of my intention to drop our own dinghy . |
| 10 | My boss kept his cool and got the four . |
| 11 | ‘ My accident left my whole family crippled for life ’ |
| 12 | Can I find a way of being a teacher — can I see any role models — which allows a satisfactory compromise between my career ambitions , my wish to be a good subject teacher , my desire to promote my broader educational ideals , my intention to be a ‘ real person ’ as much as I can , and my commitment to improving the status and conditions of teaching as a profession ? |
| 13 | ‘ My art is based upon my desire to create my own realism , my wold as I see it . |
| 14 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |
| 15 | But it 's still my right to choose my own form of sexual self-determination . |
| 16 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 17 | I started work at 16 , married a wonderful man at 20 and left my job to have my first child at 21 . |
| 18 | I knacker myself at my job to keep her nice and warm in my HOUSE , WITH MY KIDS AND MY DOG AND MY HI-FI AND MY CAR AND MY DAVID HOCKNEY PRINT … |
| 19 | Wigg , in that conversation with me , was seeking my approval to continue his parliamentary quest for information . |
| 20 | The devil riding my back dug his hard pointy heels into my flesh , but I stayed my ground . |
| 21 | My friend has his own sauna and spends what I consider to be excessive amounts of time in the sauna cabin with temperatures over 80 degrees centigrade . |
| 22 | A man I recently stopped in the centre of Manchester to ask if he believed in extraterrestrials replied ‘ What ? ’ then ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ and then ‘ Please would you come back to my flat to mend my faulty radio ? ’ |
| 23 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 24 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |
| 25 | Charles , 27 , said : ‘ When my father had his first stroke , everything was tried as it was very likely he was going to die . |
| 26 | In view of this , it seemed a reasonable solution to ask my father to bring his great experience and distinction to Darlington Hall . |
| 27 | It was after we left them that my father opened his own bank account . |
| 28 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 29 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 30 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |