Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 2 | I take off my woolly hat and try it on . |
| 3 | The arms hugged my squirming form and carried me out , while my mother stayed to watch the rest of the film . |
| 4 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 5 | " What the hell 's going on here Some bloody fool phoned my old man and told him that I need n't come in today , that Mrs. Schofield wanted me . |
| 6 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 7 | I reached out with my free hand and put it in his . |
| 8 | I contacted my social worker and told her that I could not stay at this place and that she would have to find me a Cheshire Home . |
| 9 | ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up . |
| 10 | I usually dig a hole in my back garden and bury it . |
| 11 | It 's only my fevered imagination that keeps me warm . |
| 12 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
| 13 | Once in Porthcawl in South Wales I was trying out my hydraulic lectern and discovered it had developed a horrible squeak . |
| 14 | Folding the lids of the box together , I hoisted it under my left arm and carried it to the Fire Exit . |
| 15 | ‘ And I think it is my fine menu that lures you back . ’ |
| 16 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 17 | " How dared they steal my little son and bring him down here ? " he thought . |
| 18 | Had I been an IRA man , I could have pulled out my little Luger and shot him dead — a thought so unnerving that the next day I wrote to his private secretary to suggest improved security . |
| 19 | You nicked my bestest pen and nacked it . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on , Griselda , I 'll change into my outdoor clothes and meet you in the yard with my broom in five minutes . |
| 21 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 22 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 23 | But I 'd also become disenchanted with pro-lifers who seemed to be saying that they loved my unborn baby but hated me ! |
| 24 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 25 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 26 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 27 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 28 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 29 | Slowly I reached out to my open door and pulled it shut . |
| 30 | They took all my own clothes and gave me a nightgown . |