Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a few moments , I wondered if the sand and shingle had been brought from the coast to be used as a road surface , then I doubted my sanity in thinking that anyone would bring sand to the Sahara . |
| 32 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 33 | I leave it all up to Rob as I blank out my mind and hang on to my sanity . |
| 34 | At the time , I was a member of the Young Communist League ( until I recovered my sanity ) . |
| 35 | ‘ Stephen saved my sanity ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman . |
| 37 | ‘ I always felt , ’ she said , ‘ that life 's not worth living , that I could only contemplate little bits of it and keep my sanity ; and those bits I selected carefully — the sun on a breakfast-table , girls dressing , flowers … ’ |
| 38 | I did n't think I 'd be able to keep my sanity or my family if it happened again , but there was no way I was going to let him make me sign for a loan I did n't want . |
| 39 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 40 | Later on I managed to move to a quiet dorm which was really great and very essential to saving my sanity . |
| 41 | In the interests of preserving my sanity , here is my definitive opinion on this subject , never to be referred to again . |
| 42 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
| 43 | ‘ It 's about getting a little of my sanity back again . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ You were commenting on the degree of my sanity , Inspector . ’ |
| 45 | But I have this niggling little doubt about whether I can get through a summer with you as my room-mate and have my sanity intact . ’ |
| 46 | My sanity and my memory returned . |
| 47 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 48 | The only things I think about are calorie-counting and weighing myself , and making sure that I do n't put on the weight I 've lost , and passing my O levels . |
| 49 | I decided then and there to fail my O levels . |
| 50 | I was more preoccupied by my O levels . |
| 51 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 52 | So I did my O levels and my A levels and I then went to the London Hospital , which is in Whitechapel , from the age of eighteen until I was twenty three . |
| 53 | My o 's gon na be a snake and I go right down look at that that 's the last thing I 'm gon na have to be able to do . |
| 54 | It 's just the way I make my noise . ’ |
| 55 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 56 | I 'm gon na scratch my noise ! |
| 57 | I love the opening words of the Magnificat : ‘ My soul magnifies the Lord , and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour ’ ( Luke 1.46–47 ) . |
| 58 | I must put my Saviour always before me as my example , friend and guide . |
| 59 | And Mary said , ‘ My soul doth magnify the Lord , and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour . |
| 60 | Psalm 25 echoes this thought by saying : ‘ Show me your ways , O Lord , teach me your paths ; guide me in your truth and teach me , for you are God my Saviour . ’ |