Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 2 | In competition it is to my advantage to feel for others as little as possible , an advantage which outweighs my dread of a growing isolation . |
| 3 | This experience deepened my dread of the five fillings which awaited me . |
| 4 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 5 | What I 'll do when I 'm , if all the if signs and buts are covered , I will put the mike on it 's stand when I 'm working tomorrow , put it on the desk and put the recorder in the , in my briefcase underneath the little desk |
| 6 | I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns . |
| 7 | ‘ And love of the man twisted my heart into a dry rope . |
| 8 | Lifting my heart with a strange . |
| 9 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 10 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 11 | I could not weep , though grief lay on my heart like a heavy stone . |
| 12 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 13 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 14 | The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities . |
| 15 | PRICE : £2.39/250ml ‘ I left the conditioner on for 15 minutes and wrapped my hair in a hot towel . |
| 16 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 17 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |
| 18 | I could have vomited with fear and had difficulty controlling my breathing at the silent horrors my master described . |
| 19 | Forced to listen to all those hoary chestnuts that cast me and my kind as the bad guys , and the butt of all the jokes . |
| 20 | A few days later I did question Shadwell about the possibility of not being covered in shit for my debut as a professional actor . |
| 21 | [ Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , My Part in a Changing World , 1938 ; Vera Brittain , Pethick-Lawrence : a Portrait , 1963 ; Roger Fulford , Votes for Women , 1957 ; Sylvia Pankhurst , The Suffragette Movement , 1931 ; Brian Harrison , Prudent Revolutionaries , 1987 . ] |
| 22 | ‘ He warned me that I 'd never get much credit — that people would be dismissive of my part in the great tradition , ’ said Carrick . |
| 23 | He would fight my case to the bitter end , he vowed . |
| 24 | ‘ I intend taking my case to an industrial tribunal . ’ |
| 25 | For you , my children , my only defence , my protection against the cruel winds of fate , what do you do ? |
| 26 | He told them , ‘ Everyone had a codename in those days and , because of my admiration for the Irish struggle for Independence , I chose ‘ Michael ’ , a name I called myself after Michael Collins . ’ |
| 27 | I yield to no one in my admiration for the great Iron Duke himself , but my favourite general of the Napoleonic wars was General Kutuzov . |
| 28 | As for my right hon. Friend 's personal position , may I express my admiration for the frank and manly way in which he has offered his resignation ? |
| 29 | In travelling around Australia I soon found out there was not too much of my kind of thing — little enough that feel within my category of the picturesque . |
| 30 | And the knowledge was dampening my shirt with the clammy sweat of anxiety . |