Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , in my constituency of Brecon and Radnor , where my father came from and where I come from , unemployment has doubled in the past 15 months . |
| 2 | Many hundreds of thousands of members of the public have had their cars stolen , or their cars broken into and their possessions taken . |
| 3 | Cronenberg himself has commented that The Fly and others of his films are about how viruses deform bodies , and that his originality lies in that he is ‘ on the side of the virus ’ . |
| 4 | We consent to that and your Lordship one direction to help us when we come to calculating interest is one of the earliest figures that your Lordship came to and it was dealing with care to date . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just hysterical with exhaustion , ’ I said , smiling up at Flora until my face felt as if it would crack . |
| 6 | Retreating to her bedroom , flinging things into her suitcase , she was furious to find that tears were pricking the backs of her eyes , and her heart felt as if it might be slowly breaking into a million pieces … |
| 7 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 8 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 9 | Her head was bent and her shoulders drooped as if her fears had been only partially allayed . |
| 10 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 11 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 12 | The street lamps were already lit , and a few cars crawled through the rough-mirror streets with their lights on and their wipers flapping to and fro . |
| 13 | The expressions on the faces of the displayed bodies suddenly change ; their faces contort and their limbs look as if their muscles are writhing below the surface of the skin . |
| 14 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 15 | There are many of these power bases and their usefulness depends on whether other people concede that the individual has them as bases for power or not . |
| 16 | There followed a loud squelching sound and his feet sunk as if in quicksand . |
| 17 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 18 | There was a filthy taste in his mouth and his lips felt as if they had been stung . |
| 19 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 20 | The fingers on her shoulder did n't move , but his voice thickened as if his emotions were suddenly too strong to be concealed . |
| 21 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 22 | When he had gone , Jessamy wandered into the small bedroom and sat down on the bed , because her legs felt as if they just would n't hold her up any longer . |
| 23 | This often creates a confusion in estimating the number of school age mothers , as a sixteen-year-old can be counted both in the school age group and in the sixteen to nineteen-year-old group , depending on whether her birthday falls before or after the end of the school year . |
| 24 | Claudia jumped up and put her hand on his , snatching it away as her nerves reacted as if she had touched a live wire . |
| 25 | She ran a shaking hand through her soft curls and forced a smile , even though her face felt as if it would crack with the effort . |
| 26 | Passing hot-dog stands and car parks and stalls selling Formula One memorabilia , she sprinted around the outside of the circuit until , when her lungs felt as if they would burst , she finally reached double gates in the high chain-link perimeter fence which enclosed the pits . |
| 27 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 28 | He fell back at once and lay quietly on the damp earth staring up at the now empty wall as his blood soaked into and congealed darkly upon the white of his shirt . |