Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 2 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 3 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 4 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 5 | I daresay you were right , I should n't have brushed my teeth out of the tap . ’ |
| 6 | I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school . |
| 8 | I cried my eyes out for a night then started writing my own songs . |
| 9 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 10 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 11 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 12 | Well usually cos I got my feet up on a bench and I ca n't reach keyboard so |
| 13 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 15 | I drew my feet out of the water . |
| 16 | I thought of nothing other than dragging my feet out of the mud encasing them . |
| 17 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 18 | ‘ I just this minute took my cakes out of the oven . |
| 19 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 20 | ‘ I first started writing songs when I was about 14 , because I knew that the first song I 'd put down would be so crap I thought I 'd get all my ideas out of the way first , and then I 'd start getting all artistic , ’ explains Tony . |
| 21 | " Will you meet me , Tom ? " she was saying as she bent over him , " when I 'll have my scones out for the tea . " |
| 22 | ‘ If I had spoken to anyone properly about how I felt after Hungerford , ’ he says , ‘ I 'm sure I would not have turned my problems over to the bottle . ’ |
| 23 | I shoved my dreams back into the bag — no time to zip it up — and went after him . |
| 24 | At any moment , he told himself , I will find myself up on my legs , waving my arms around in the air and giving . |
| 25 | Then , to quote my sister again , ‘ I took my little black kitten in my arms up to the poet to introduce it , and tall Mr Eliot bending forward to look at it remarked ‘ That 's a nice little catlet ’ ’ . |
| 26 | I yelled , flinging my arms about in a style I might have copied from them . |
| 27 | Probably because it 's as close as I have ever come to seeing myself and my friends up on the screen . |
| 28 | I put my hands out to the wall and , as I did so , the optimist still containing my legs , drifted away slowly , leaving my stomach sagging gracefully into the water . |
| 29 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 30 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |