Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked first about my bag and felt my breathing quicken when the chief seemed unable to find my deposition . |
| 2 | He was very impertinent about my wine and said it always had pieces of cork floating in it . |
| 3 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 4 | There was dirt underneath my fingernails and my hangover was worse than normal , as the result of weeks of drinking throbbed through my head and churned my stomach . |
| 5 | Breathing heavily , he reached for my shoulder and pulled me towards him . |
| 6 | Sir Sidney Barton was apprehensive for my safety and suggested I should join him and Lord Airlie on a short hunting trip near the Awash Station . |
| 7 | I climbed the highest of these one day when Mallaig was too crowded with visitors for my liking and suffered my only experience of hostility from a Highlander . |
| 8 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 9 | she called back to the card players , over her shoulder , and then she put a silky arm round my neck and drew my face down to hers , and fastened those red , red lips on to my mouth and darted her snake-like tongue between my teeth and pressed her whole soft body right up to mine and seemed to squirm with pleasure . |
| 10 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 11 | But when I rubbed the leaves between my fingers and offered her my fingertips to sniff , her reaction was dramatic . |
| 12 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 13 | They accepted us as long as we looked after their money and invested it . |
| 14 | A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions . |
| 15 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 16 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 17 | They talked to me about their past and told me what sort of things they like doing . ’ |
| 18 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 20 | Jones was modest about her poetry and concealed it from her friends in Oxford . |
| 21 | As they walked on , he started to talk about her future contract , and as he did so he put his arm about her shoulders and held her close . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , she exaggerated and falsified many experiences , claimed journeys and discoveries by others for herself , lied about her age and concealed her relatives of whom she was ashamed . |
| 23 | They moved quite quickly and by the time Mum had paid for her shopping and packed it in bags , they had almost reached t ] he last checkout . |
| 24 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 25 | Hofmeyr was certain that the mother had returned to look for her calf and associated him with its disappearance . |
| 26 | I thanked her for her consideration and said I would . |
| 27 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 28 | Scottish Television 's Controller of Drama , Robert Love praised her for her bravery and praised her husband for the tremendous support he had given her . |
| 29 | The world of the Press knew Maggie Howard , and hardened newsmen tended to duck although they looked every month for her byline and read her features avidly . |
| 30 | Ruth turned away and groped for her sunglasses and clamped them over her face so he would n't see the hurt in her eyes . |