Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was disappointed when my snails arrived already out of their shells — part of the pleasure for me is digging them out of their homes- but perhaps this is Chez Gerard 's gesture to British sqeamishness . |
| 2 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 3 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 4 | She was deceitful , was Shirley : downstairs , with Mr and Mrs Harper , she would be another girl , helpful , quiet , obsequious , prim , in her neat , absurdly old-fashioned blouses and skirts , her hair tied neatly back in bunches . |
| 5 | Presently , her teeth pressed tightly down on her lip , she turned her head and leant her brow against the stone wall . |
| 6 | Her eyes looked pleadingly up at Lewis . |
| 7 | Her eyes drove right back at him . |
| 8 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |
| 9 | She had had such a promising career as a physio , Kathleen thought crossly , and now she was trapped at home with her children while her husband powered quietly on up the career ladder , leaving her behind . |
| 10 | Her head turned automatically over to the city on the horizon . |
| 11 | Her spoon dropped listlessly back into the dull porridge lake . |
| 12 | Although parachutes were not used again by the SAS in North Africa , training in their use continued right up to the end of the campaign . |
| 13 | Her visitor wandered nonchalantly over to the window and looped back the curtain to peer out . |
| 14 | With its occupants pushed firmly back into their seats , the Turbo R thumped a hole in the air and lunged for the far horizon , covering the quarter-mile in a staggering 14.8secs on the way . |
| 15 | She thought quickly of Arnie , feeling deeply disloyal , but she could n't help the feeling of elation that swept through her as her thoughts flitted instantly back to Guido . |
| 16 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |
| 17 | The hunting season for the palombe is short but deadly , and if you go up into the hills while it is on , the local men will be crouched there in their camouflage jackets , or lined up at stands along the roads , their shotguns aimed hungrily out over the valley . |
| 18 | while four-fifths of the students were studying on IT Advanced Courses that finished in September , 1984 , the survey did include those whose courses finished right through from June to October ; |
| 19 | But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain . |
| 20 | Was he drowned in an accident and his canoe washed further down to be buried in the silting up of the marshes ? |
| 21 | His hair came right down over his face but his eyes gleamed through it , and when he saw me he grinned a wide toothy grin , like one of those gibbons Vern was so neurotic about at the zoo . |
| 22 | ‘ God , but I want this to last , ’ he rasped as his mouth came wildly back to hers . |
| 23 | ‘ Marc — please — ’ she whimpered as his mouth crushed savagely down over her own . |
| 24 | His mouth turned sullenly down at the corners , like the mouth of a joke mug Melanie had once seen in an antique shop . |
| 25 | His knees jutted just out of reach in the low black vinyl chair opposite her , and somehow this made her tongue feel like cotton wool . |
| 26 | One last memorable portrait to carry away from Dunvegan : Johnson wore his wig turned inside out as a night-cap , and Lady Macleod said , ‘ I have often seen very plain people , but anything as ugly as Dr Johnson with his wig thus stuck on , I never have seen . ’ |
| 27 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 28 | His prick slipped smoothly back into her vagina , and continued to shaft her with glorious piston movements . |
| 29 | He wore his mood wrapped tightly round like him like a galabeah until he was prepared to throw it off , and there was nothing I could do to change him . |
| 30 | He was intoxicated by cinema from the start , and his films came directly out of his own experiences and from a total dedication . |