Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need to be able to see the path ahead in order to plan my route well in advance , or else I may get myself into an awkward position . |
| 2 | I earned my living mainly from teaching . |
| 3 | ‘ Tom Horrocks has put my mind quite at rest , ’ he said . |
| 4 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 5 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 6 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 7 | Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe . |
| 8 | They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau . |
| 9 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 10 | They put a safety rope around my waist just in case . |
| 11 | In short , they are versatile summer trousers which have proved a useful addition to my wardrobe both for use in the UK and on the continent . |
| 12 | It is going to effect my trade very much because the Americans are the mainstay of my business particularly at lunchtime . |
| 13 | My feet moved my body forward without thought or intention . |
| 14 | Can I feel one side of my body more in contact with the floor than the other side ? |
| 15 | I had a meal out with a friend recently , and now we 've got mother into hospital for a few weeks so that I can take my husband away on holiday . |
| 16 | I shook my head slowly in disappointment with him . |
| 17 | The ‘ Nancy Spain' ballad reels round in my head even in sleep . |
| 18 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
| 19 | I had already learned to relish shade and arranged my umbrella continually in order to be under its protection . |
| 20 | I will have no part in your paltry schemes , ma'am , and I utterly forbid you to mention my name again in connection with them . ’ |
| 21 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
| 22 | ‘ I wo n't even go back to my flat just in case someone is watching it . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll see my father there under Ink . ’ |
| 24 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 25 | In your handout , somewhere , I 'm afraid I have n't got the pages er , cos I do n't have my handout immediately to hand , er I 've got here a short-term er programme . |
| 26 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 27 | In accordance with Clause 2 sub-clause 3 of the Conditions of Contract I hereby authorise my Acting Depute Director ( Projects ) or his successor to act on my behalf generally in respect of this Contract . |
| 28 | I now look forward to resuming my career wholly without blame or blemish for any of the difficulties that arose at Magnet . ’ |
| 29 | Even today I remember my stupefaction close to terror . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew then that my decision to send my secretary away on business was the right one . ’ |