Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the warm-up track , which was alongside the stadium , I had my usual massage and began my leisurely warm-up . |
| 2 | Here I raised my right hand and pointed my index finger straight at the bearded one . |
| 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 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I put my bag on the cobbles , rubbed my aching shoulder and sat myself down . |
| 9 | Once in Porthcawl in South Wales I was trying out my hydraulic lectern and discovered it had developed a horrible squeak . |
| 10 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 11 | Folding the lids of the box together , I hoisted it under my left arm and carried it to the Fire Exit . |
| 12 | ‘ The other one put his hand in my left pocket and grabbed my savings . |
| 13 | I crept back upstairs to my little room and spoke my account of the previous day 's events into my journal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I registered just after my eighteenth birthday and had my medical almost at once . |
| 16 | Unhappy wretch that I am , I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands . |
| 17 | You nicked my bestest pen and nacked it . |
| 18 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 21 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 22 | Slowly I reached out to my open door and pulled it shut . |
| 23 | ‘ A little later , after a lazy bath , I stretched out in my own bed and fed my new baby . |
| 24 | I put on my clean uniform and adjusted my beret , blousing my trousers over the buckles of my combat boots . |
| 25 | His friend held my other hand and told me I 'd been brave . |
| 26 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 27 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 28 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 29 | She folded her arms over her ample bosom and completed her piece of Tin Pan Alley sentiment . |
| 30 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |