Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 2 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 3 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 4 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 5 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 6 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 7 | He 'd said to himself as he walked away with it that all along the act had been a load of rubbish . |
| 8 | Indeed , he told himself as he walked briskly across the courtyard toward the covered way that led past Pathology and Pharmacy to the rear of the hospital and his own unit , it was not quite as bad as it might have been , taking it all around . |
| 9 | ‘ You need a holiday , son , ’ he said to himself as he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 10 | He looked up at me and I stared hard at him . |
| 11 | Waves of sleep then started to wash over me and I dozed fitfully until dawn . |
| 12 | I rang the number she 'd given me and she answered almost at once — whether she was up and reading , or whether the phone was beside her bed I did n't know . |
| 13 | He had offered to tell her fortune for nothing if she went there with him . |
| 14 | These were the Overseer 's men , Chang Yan and Teng Fu ; big , brutal men who were not slow to chastise their workers and beat them if they fell behind with quotas . |
| 15 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 16 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 17 | But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke . |
| 18 | ‘ I must tell you that I quarrelled violently with your father once . |
| 19 | So she and I ran away from him several times . |
| 20 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 21 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 22 | thank you and it said there in apportionment , page one , five , three again , calculated from the date of legal completion to the end of the then current half year , will be collected on completion , please note that these are estimated only and will be retrospectively adjusted when audited accounts are available now we 've seen the reflection of that in practice this morning have n't we ? |
| 23 | ‘ I brought it to Starr Hills for you but you ran away from me without even looking round ! |
| 24 | Have you listened to nothing I have said to you since you came here to Malta ? |
| 25 | They are in the ownership of their communities , which we should support in their endeavours — not try to take over something that they started only in 1982 , when the first neighbourhood watch began . |
| 26 | Is the Minister aware that in Scotland we have gained the impression that while the Secretary of State for Scotland is prepared to have meetings about the industry such as the one that he had yesterday with the shadow Secretary of State for Industry — the man with the real power in relation to the steel industry , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , is not prepared to lift a finger to help secure a future for steel production in Scotland ? |
| 27 | But his outrageous irreverence was a relief ; eventually she had to admit to herself that she looked forward to hearing what Lieutenant Woolley had done now . |
| 28 | Katy was looking very pleased with herself when she came home from the nursery . |
| 29 | Oh , well , I 've made somebody 's day , ’ she said to herself as she walked briskly through the department , running her eye over the smooth operation of the unit . |
| 30 | Shall I tell her that you did not come running to me , that instead you melted in my arms after looking at me since I came today with large , yearning eyes ? |