Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 2 | The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , Griselda , I 'll change into my outdoor clothes and meet you in the yard with my broom in five minutes . |
| 5 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Now I ‘ m free to make my own choices and to live my own life .. ’ |
| 8 | But when I criticise a tremolo system for being awkward to change strings on , or a truss rod for being inaccessible , it 's because I change my own strings and adjust my own truss rod . |
| 9 | They took all my own clothes and gave me a nightgown . |
| 10 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 11 | First she disarms us : ‘ Several seasons of guiding city folks down white water rivers both sharpened my squatting skills and assured me I was n't alone in the klutz department . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Give Cornelius my best wishes and tell him I hope he gets well soon . ’ |
| 13 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
| 14 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 15 | They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees . |
| 16 | The outflow of labour from agriculture has denuded many villages of their working populations and replaced them by inhabitants who work in towns and cities and who are not dependent upon farming for their living . |
| 17 | ‘ Raindown ’ again impresses because of the newly-found POD focus , its guitars taking time to breathe and plan their next assault , while Craig 's voice breaks away from its usual comparisons and finds its own piece of sky to lark about in . |
| 18 | Kill-fever had gripped their trembling bodies and incensed their savage brains at the sight of so many strange man-things waiting to be torn to pieces . |
| 19 | Everyone appreciated her saintlike qualities and loved her . |
| 20 | The chlorine will irritate their skin and gills , disrupt some of their metabolic functions and subject them to a huge amount of environmental stress — and stress is the number one killer of fish . |
| 21 | She has felt sick ever since the final board interview : four middleaged middle-class men rub their hands at her qualifications , her feminine ability to spot what they want her to say and to say it , her freaky clothes that suggest her safe token Marxism and her fashionably feminist views . |
| 22 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 23 | She changed her political garments but nut her heart . |
| 24 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 25 | This central resource is used to complement and strengthen the work in the field ; to extend the process of action and learning in local communities ; to bring together people from both sides of the religious divide , and from different movements , to reflect on their common problem ; to learn from their different experiences and to discuss their cultural and political differences . |
| 26 | Martha Simmonds and her companions vested in Nayler their apocalyptic hopes and accompanied him into Bristol in October 1656 , leading his horse while they cried ‘ Holy , holy , holy ’ . |
| 27 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 28 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 29 | And the fact that the film is not frightened of its sexual aspects but treats them with some taste is another point in its favour . |
| 30 | So they entered the cheerful portals of the Jade Cockatoo , the only cafe to be found in Chetwynd , and threaded their way through a maze of small tables to an alcove by the fire , where they took off their soaking mackintoshes and warmed their hands . |