Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] and [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went out , letting the smoke and fumes free into the damp air ; coils of blue and grey curled off my hair and clothes as I stood there , breathing deeply . |
| 2 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 3 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't remember … something was put over my head and eyes and I could not see … ’ |
| 5 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 6 | I love my wife and children but I do n't let them get in the way of company work . ’ |
| 7 | Now I am filled with remorse , loathing and longing , because I love my wife and children but I remain attracted to this girl and ca n't get her out of my mind . |
| 8 | Now I am filled with remorse , loathing and longing , because I love my wife and children but I remain attracted to this girl and ca n't get her out of my mind . |
| 9 | She has never asked me to leave my wife and children because she knows the pain of divorce . |
| 10 | Those five hours passed slowly and painfully , I was definitely going to miss my family and friends but I just wanted to go and have my holiday . |
| 11 | It is very popular among my family and friends and we would be very disappointed if it finishes . |
| 12 | There was a warm wind on my face and hands as I made my way towards Mr Marr 's place . |
| 13 | ‘ On Tuesdays we get all the old boys coming in on their horse and carts and they have a sing-song at lunchtime . |
| 14 | The reform , which required a two-thirds majority in parliament , would allow a new government a period of 18 months to establish its programme and policies before it could be subject to a confidence motion . |
| 15 | She whistled , hitching up her skirt and petticoats so she could run more easily down the tradesman 's path to the gate . |
| 16 | Three men held the yak 's head down with ropes , their weight pitted against the great muscles of its neck and shoulders as it threw its head about , crazy with the pain of the knife in its withers . |
| 17 | she lives in Barnside , she was coming up behind me and her husband and kids and I |
| 18 | Automatically she lifted her head and arms as he finally removed the flimsy barrier and she lay open to his gaze . |
| 19 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 20 | In the first place , there is a gap between say and do : however cooperative a mother , it may be genuinely difficult for her to provide undistorted information about her behaviour and feelings as they impinge on her child . |
| 21 | I knew their form , their colour , their song and voices and their biological characteristics . |
| 22 | Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened . |
| 23 | I have seen their dreadful face and the stories are true — strong men have lost their reason and wits once they have looked upon it . |
| 24 | First , the dual polity model suggests that the US states and local governments , plus Congress , are fundamentally pluralist in their organization and operations because they only handle secondary issues of little importance for national elites ( Mills , 1956 , p. 244 ) . |
| 25 | After all , she may well have told her family and friends that I 'm a nice boy — although a Jew . |
| 26 | I do n't think she would have agreed to take off her hat and gloves if she did n't want to . |
| 27 | Anne Marie worried her mother and police after she disappeared on Easter Monday after an argument . |
| 28 | Roman Catholic police sergeant , Hugh McCormac , is shot dead in front of his wife and children as he leaves church at St Gabriel 's monastery near Enniskillen . |
| 29 | ‘ He did n't tell her about his wife and children until she was pregnant . |
| 30 | Sitting in the path of the light , which cascaded over his head and shoulders and his white robe , sat a man of perhaps thirty years . |