Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the safety of my heterosexual relationship I wore my Gaysoc badge out on the streets . |
| 2 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 3 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 4 | In one of my first jobs I plastered on the make-up and wore very executive-type suits . |
| 5 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 6 | For 22 years of my married life I maintained these two old people . ’ |
| 7 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 8 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 9 | one of my best animals I … |
| 10 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 11 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 12 | However , cautious and pragmatic as ever , I realised that before I could take part in the airier abstractions of my chosen profession I needed to confront the nitty-gritty , the hard business of actually selling things , specific products , to industrial customers . |
| 13 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 14 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 15 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 16 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 17 | The fact that there are parts of Britain which have clambered out of real poverty , and primitive housing , within the lifetime of my own generation they see as a hope and a challenge . |
| 18 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 19 | And within or without these dancing shapes and from deep within the brighter flame of my own imagination I can escape any pressure from any source . |
| 20 | As I laboured through the rest of my own meal we turned our attention to less personally charged topics , like the latest terrorist attack in Northern Ireland and the growing tension in the Lebanon . |
| 21 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 22 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 23 | By custom they sat in private and not in court , and they were referred to as a domestic tribunal whatever part of their visitorial functions they were performing . |
| 24 | At one of their great festivals they have the ritual of driving out the devils from their bodies . |
| 25 | It may be appropriate for the person who maintains the cash books to do this , but because of their technical nature it may be necessary for the accountant to do this instead . |
| 26 | In one way their love had got stronger yet absurdly it was n't quite right and the outcome of their renewed affair she could n't foresee . |
| 27 | Lady Grange 's husband had been a Jacobite and during one of their marital battles she hinted that she would expose his seditious leanings — for which he could be hanged . |
| 28 | Er I 'll go on to explain in the product range one of their new products we 're introducing this year . |
| 29 | Because of their cationic nature they are attracted to plastics and cellulose products . |
| 30 | Regardless of their sacerdotal status they , too , had to provide sufficient funds for their endowment but , as they were often as wealthy and powerful as the nobility , this was no hardship . |