Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 2 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 3 | Because my stomach come up and met my heart |
| 4 | Most of my leaves drop down and fall in the borders |
| 5 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 6 | A desperately sad aspect of the modern family is the way in which so much lavish attention is spent on the ( small number of ) children who after a life of smothering contact with their parents grow up and become almost strangers . |
| 7 | As the colony develops , new polyps form , often on these connecting sections and their skeletons grow over and stifle earlier polyps . |
| 8 | But he saw her hand fly up and hold her mouth , he saw Creed slide an arm round her shoulder . |
| 9 | Be sure to provide a comfortable bed , which can be a cardboard box with its sides cut down and lined with a blanket . |
| 10 | Dr George Carey called on parents to accept responsibility for the way their children grow up and give them moral guidance . |
| 11 | Here again , the responsib ility for children is maintaine d and the housewif e must be prepared to interrupt whatever she is doing at a moment 's notice if her children wake up and require her attention . |
| 12 | Having defeated a large Christian force , the Moorish Emir Yusuf orders the heads of his foes cut off and piled in mounds . |
| 13 | Well , apart from our man with his arms cut off and placed in the shape of a swastika . |
| 14 | Every time I turn a corner , your secrets come out and pounce on me . |
| 15 | After a while you can no longer be revolted every time you hear the slogans or your eyes glaze over while skimming through Scînteia . |
| 16 | You putting that bit of carpet down till your daddy come along and done that on it . |
| 17 | That 'll make both your beaux sit up and take notice . " |
| 18 | I.e. we want to create the impression that we are good people to do business with , so our customers come back and buy more of our books , so that makes more money for the company , which means they can pay us more money . |