Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 2 | Then I I remember one m my sister my younger sister she went to er to hospital with erm scarlet fever . |
| 3 | He was very small but even then to my mind his slight body and lack of height emphasized his distinction drawing attention to the sensitive and finely moulded face . |
| 4 | To my mind his strong points are his single note two-hand tapping ( which is often done with the side of the pick rather than with a right-hand finger — see Satch Boogie ) , his chordal tapping ( as in Midnight , The Forgotten Part 1 and Headless ) and his tremolo and legato work ( as in nearly everything ! ) . |
| 5 | As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience , my trepidation returned . |
| 6 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 7 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 8 | Not long after we met , I remember telling him that in my opinion his only fault was that he was too predictable , that , although no doubt perverse , I enjoyed being kept guessing a bit more often . |
| 9 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 10 | At my back my trusty longbow My broadsword clanks at my side , My outlaws gallop behind me As into adventure we ride . |
| 11 | My Lord nobody any questions . |
| 12 | It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns . |
| 13 | my Lord our immediate concern is precisely the one you 've identified , the collection of monies from central |
| 14 | My Lord my initial reaction is it sounds logical as well and I I wondered if if what my learned friend has said i if and also what your Lordship 's initial view is , if the matter can be left in that way er i if after further reflection , it seems right then of course that 's the way that we will approach it . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's my guess his old mother 's dying , ’ said Garvey in an undertone . |
| 16 | To my surprise my Working Group insisted after a lively debate that we kept the weighting at 33⅓ per cent for 14 year olds . |
| 17 | I remember a cook of my childhood whose great dish was a crème brulée in which the layer of glass-like caramel concealed , not the usual egg-thickened cream , but a delicate and softly frozen gooseberry fool . |
| 18 | I need to and what are you doing in my bag you nosy cow . |
| 19 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
| 20 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 21 | Oh fat father kept the my brother my three brothers went after him . |
| 22 | In general it would be incongruous , having myself been highly honoured , to express any criticism of the honours system , but in my view its main vice has been the determination of unsuccessful candidates to receive an award . |
| 23 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 24 | Lynn is a vivid example of how women are often attracted to men who express parts of themselves which have been buried or destroyed — in her case her sexual confidence . |
| 25 | Its function its physiological function is simply to depolarize the membrane when it binds acetylcholine . |
| 26 | Just the sight of him , his height and the strength she had gauged so intimately , and his darkness , emphasised by the light colours of his casual clothing , provoked the yearning , that molten clamouring throb of hidden flesh , with the anguished clenching of her heart its emotional counterpart . |
| 27 | This poem shows how Eliot 's increasing interest in ruralism had at its heart his earlier interest in the savage . |
| 28 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 29 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 30 | Doctors are concerned about her condition which this morning was described as ‘ very poorly ’ . |