Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
| 2 | She left me with my adoptive mother and just disappeared . |
| 3 | It 's a compliment , by the way : Philippa is my next-door neighbour and startlingly beautiful . |
| 4 | ‘ I needed a pain-killing injection in my right elbow and then the abductor muscle in my groin went . |
| 5 | Are you gon na keep that on my right shopping as well ? |
| 6 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 7 | I wear mine on my right hand as well but then I am odd in all sorts of ways . ’ |
| 8 | After the mass murderer hit the deck , I got up and , resisting the temptation to fold my left forearm over my right elbow , make a prong of the middle finger of my right hand and then lift it in Quigley 's face while telling him he was a motherfucking asshole , I went to the door . |
| 9 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 10 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 11 | Publications : Heterosexual Strain in Modern English Literature , The Ern Malley Affair , Sins of My Old Age and Earlier . |
| 12 | ‘ Sins of My Old Age and Earlier ? |
| 13 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 14 | Pain relief is essential , but I would like my thrombolytic therapy as well . |
| 15 | I raised my free wing and nearly caught him with it and he called out in alarm . |
| 16 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 17 | Indeed , it has taken me more than three years to cast off my British cynicism and truly comprehend the value of freedom in America . |
| 18 | ( A coppa was my favourite treat but unfortunately I could not afford it very often . ) |
| 19 | That was my favourite picture and now it 's all ripped up . |
| 20 | But it , it did n't worry me and I liked to think I can go about my daily life and not be frightened , and I am not gon na be frightened to go out at night . |
| 21 | I can tell my hon. Friend that well over 120,000 teachers exceeded £20,000 a year even before yesterday 's pay increases . |
| 22 | I agree with my hon. Friend that perhaps a moral can be drawn from that . |
| 23 | I was already queer , and had known too long the vice of distinctiveness in my personal life as well as in my poetry . |
| 24 | I am convinced that FECMA has enormous potential and my personal hope that eventually it will spread its net far beyond its current European boundaries . |
| 25 | This was my distinct feeling when nervously trying to set up my first foray into journalism . |
| 26 | So gradually I am claiming my philosophical estate and already believe in myself ; it would n't even surprise me if I turned into a poet . |
| 27 | to my honourable friend because not only are these er large er particularly the big six er centres of accountancy power pretty well uncontrolled , they dominate the institutions that are meant to regulate them er but when it comes to international er affairs they do n't exchange information with each other . |
| 28 | I know from my photographic experience that both paper and acetate readily stretch and shrink with changes in humidity and that even the finest 0.10mm line represents 2.5m on the ground . |
| 29 | He 'd fit the electrodes to my fingers , a band around my chest and a blood-pressure gauge to my left arm and then we 'd go at it , heat full up , windows closed , sweating like pigs because that was supposed to make the polygraph more accurate . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just about at the limit of my transmitting range and anyway I do n't know exactly where we are , although I think it 's on the A7 road to Carlisle . |