Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 2 | Fortunately their approach coincided with my plans for a charitable foundation to buy art for Britain . |
| 3 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This episode has not changed my attitude to managing Celtic and I will be going before the board to give them my plans for the future ’ Liam Brady |
| 5 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 6 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |
| 7 | Before expressing my views about the remaining issues , I think it helpful to set out shortly the general principles of law which are applicable to the Secretary of State 's decision-making process . |
| 8 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 9 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 10 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 11 | It was impossible to imagine a people — ; I do not say a government — with less relish for war , if my contacts with the Italian colonists and equally with the Italian army were any guide . |
| 12 | ‘ I am willing to use my skills as a paramedic to accompany someone requiring medical care or to instruct first aid to any organisation in exchange for the flight , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Now the junior minister says she is pleased ‘ that the West Midlands County Council have accepted my proposals for a sensible and reasonable division of responsibilities . ’ |
| 14 | Here are my notes on the recent form of the top châteaux : |
| 15 | Having read through my notes with a fine toothpick , I can find no mention of the tent on the far side of the ground whatsoever . |
| 16 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 17 | Neither my wins in the European Championships and European Cup nor my two British records had ever made the front page — but the fact that I would n't run in a relay team had . |
| 18 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 19 | I have kept my opinions to a minimum but I could not resist making observations . |
| 20 | ‘ I sank down on my knees and thrust my fingers into the dry warm sand . ’ |
| 21 | I paused with my fingers on the plunger . |
| 22 | I did n't much care ; it was only the clumsiness of my fingers around the dip-in pen which was at fault , and nothing more intimate . |
| 23 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 24 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 25 | In my discussions with the regional councils for sport and recreation — There is a football hooligan shouting from the Opposition Benches — |
| 26 | In my discussions with the individual artists , then I have focussed on the ‘ particular ’ , specifically the artist 's concerns within their work and their experience as women working within the context of the art college . |
| 27 | I sat on the wheelbarrow and sank my teeth into a fresh loaf . |
| 28 | The process which I adopted for validating my accounts of the various meetings I attended , may have undermined my stance as a non-participant . |
| 29 | However , David Chadwick , a member of the Liberal Democrats group on the council , said : ‘ All my requests to the chief executive of the council for financial details about this company have been turned down . |
| 30 | ‘ I am only sorry that my requests for the Public Accounts Committee to investigate royal travel costs as well as the cost of the royal palaces was not agreed to . ’ |