Example sentences of "accord to my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do , according to my best friend who 's just had a baby . |
| 2 | According to my scribbled sums , the old Princess would have been conceived when her father was forty-nine . |
| 3 | He must have constructed a pretty good strong bow too ( according to my detailed instructions ) which would by now no doubt be broken into unidentifiable pieces in distant undergrowth . |
| 4 | the game is to be televized on — sunday — ( SkySports ) according to my local football pub . |
| 5 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 6 | Amaury de Craon wrote to Edward II from Sablé in November 1323 telling him that the ‘ great uneasiness of heart that I feel as a result of the dispute between you and your brother the king of France , our lord , and a desire to find ways , according to my humble ability , to prevent it , has emboldened me to write the following things ’ . |
| 7 | Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression . |