Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |
| 2 | Oh , how puny my contemporaries seem by comparison ! |
| 3 | My hairs stand on end . |
| 4 | That 's what my lads think about Mister bloody Clasper . |
| 5 | My eyes prickle with tears , and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's my eyesight that gets me , I ca n't read , my eyes start to water . |
| 7 | Firstly , my thanks go to David Bowley for without him I would never have learnt the art of letching which is essential for the editorial role . |
| 8 | My legs go to tubes of warm jelly . |
| 9 | Leith saw Travis give her a warning look , but , since Rosemary 's name had not so much as been mentioned , much less the name of the place she came from , she saw no harm in revealing , ‘ My parents live in Dorset . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , my parents live in Kenya and I was going to study in Nairobi , but Moi has suspended the classes at the university for this year , so I applied to come here . ’ |
| 11 | When my friends come into Gatwick , I tell them I 'll meet them at Victoria station . |
| 12 | It 's a very good paper , and I approve of its line , which is important : so many of my friends work for papers they ca n't stand . ’ |
| 13 | The writer quoted an old Italian who , in discussing the merits of his own dual-purpose white cattle , explained : ‘ With beef cattle my children cry for milk . |
| 14 | And what is " Reverse Polling ON/OFF " for God 's sake ? ) , my thoughts return to Alexander Bain and the protracted overnight success he provoked . |
| 15 | I recommend that all my students listen to records at least two or three hours a day . |
| 16 | My conclusions come from experiments in which comparison is made between subjects given discrimination training and subjects given a control procedure of some sort ( or sometimes , in the studies done with human subjects , no pre-training at all ) . |
| 17 | The backgrounds of my tanks consist of tufa rock and corals which have been sawn , drilled and silicone sealed onto the glass walls and back of the tank , allowing for uplifts and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ All my hopes rest on anatomy now , goodness me they do ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ My supplies come by van and that 's only once or twice a month . ’ |
| 20 | Those that remained awake became sluggish and temperamental , and their riders became reluctant to use their mounts save in times of direst need . |
| 21 | Those that remain awake are sometimes sluggish and temperamental , so their riders are reluctant to use their mounts save in times of direst need . |
| 22 | This is the problem that behaviour which is privately profitable will not be wealth maximising overall where an actor can ignore the costs that its activities impose on others , for example where a company without cost to itself can emit into the atmosphere the noxious by-products of its production processes . |
| 23 | Given the chance to try something , they 'll be in such a state that their fingers turn into bananas and confirm to all those pretending to be interested that they are indeed crap ! |
| 24 | Her accounts come from letters to a penpal and published in the Daily Express . |
| 25 | It is necessary to attract and select staff , to train them , to provide them with various services and with potentiality for advancement as their skills increase with experience . |
| 26 | Since sexuality is so deeply inbuilt in us , it is there from the beginning and only its manifestations change from infancy to old age . |
| 27 | Although institutions of higher education to some extent reshaped their admissions procedures before and after the Further & Higher Education Act 1992 , they still appear to pay little attention to the effect which their policies have on schools and colleges . |
| 28 | Although various records of their activities exist in Frome itself , many of the Carpenter family lived in the nearby parish of Rodden . |
| 29 | Their activities result from decisions to produce , to buy , and to sell commodities and resources . |
| 30 | The episode is described by all the chroniclers and although their accounts differ in detail , the outlines are clear . |