Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] and [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fist crunches into my left cheek and drives my head against the ground . |
| 2 | As they answer she leans back , and her nightdress brushes against my bare chest and tickles my hair . |
| 3 | Roberto blinks and smiles , then picks up the novel and my small dictionary and balances them one in each hand . |
| 4 | He revels in my dirty appearance and asks me all the details of the chase . |
| 5 | Of course , when a microbiologist takes E. coli out of its usual habitat and grows it in a laboratory , the strain eventually mutates . |
| 6 | ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power . |
| 7 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 8 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 9 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |
| 10 | This done , he neatly hacks off her left arm and tosses it to the young boy , who , squatting on his haunches , pounds it to a pulp with the back of an axe . |
| 11 | Helen Simmons has damaged cartiledge in her left knee and finds it hard to walk . |
| 12 | The anorexic patient identifies with her wasted body and declares her condition a form of self-realisation and self-expression . |
| 13 | He calls them a blueprint for disaster in their current form and wants them amended . |
| 14 | was a little girl on her fifteenth birthday and has it it 's like an M O T Certificate , only it 's an M O L Certificate for life that you have to do after your sixty five . |
| 15 | The former is the result of its initial work and produces its current 33MHz and 40MHz Viking iterations . |
| 16 | The former is the result of its initial work and produces its current 33MHz-40MHz Vikings . |
| 17 | ‘ The division faces another difficult year ahead as it completes its fundamental restructuring and positions itself to become a viable business in niche markets , ’ the company declared . |
| 18 | ‘ It makes them more responsible for their own work and gets them into the idea that they have to work outside normal school hours . |
| 19 | Each has their own personal allowance and rate band ; and each pays their own tax and receives their own tax rebates . |
| 20 | He describes ufology as ‘ a war zone in which everyone desperately defends their own theory and hates everyone else . ’ |
| 21 | The computer inside the printer builds up all the elements in its own memory and prints them . |
| 22 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 23 | She sits on her own bed and watches him . ) |
| 24 | ‘ She is simply a normal balanced youngster who knows her own mind and goes her own way ’ Bellamy writes . |
| 25 | On the one hand there is the novel 's plot , the menace of the Civil War and the perfumed décor of the Southern plantations — an ebullient world , full of personalities and their passions , balls and duels , a world which senses its looming destruction and rejects it . |
| 26 | She strokes its white flesh against her black cheek , then slides it into her red mouth and rolls her eyes to make me laugh , and I think , Jesus , is that what it 's like ? |
| 27 | There he pronounces Owenism 's insistence on the right of property to be its vitiating weakness and contrasts it unfavourably with those who ‘ could see that Socialism entailed the expropriation of the great land owners ’ ; and goes on to conclude that because Owen refused to face the problem of ownership and power , he was able to remain quite indifferent to political Radicalism and to lead the movement astray . |
| 28 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 29 | 3 The defender catches the fan in her other hand and pushes it into her attacker 's throat to finish him off . |
| 30 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |