Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 2 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 3 | But although the schizoid suicide and the anorexic both deny the reality of death , it seems to me that they do so for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 4 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 5 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 6 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 7 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 8 | I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to . |
| 9 | He looked up at me and I stared hard at him . |
| 10 | I trip on something in the ferns , twisting in mid-air as my ankle gives underneath me and I slam backwards into the ground , winding myself . |
| 11 | Waves of sleep then started to wash over me and I dozed fitfully until dawn . |
| 12 | I rang the number she 'd given me and she answered almost at once — whether she was up and reading , or whether the phone was beside her bed I did n't know . |
| 13 | These were the Overseer 's men , Chang Yan and Teng Fu ; big , brutal men who were not slow to chastise their workers and beat them if they fell behind with quotas . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister has warned Gloucestershire County Councillors that he wo n't hesitate to chargecap them if they go ahead with the illegal budget set yesterday . |
| 15 | The undertaker selected four of them and they bent willingly to the coffin , easier in their minds about the embarrassments of grief , because now they had something they could do . |
| 16 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 17 | Though they say ‘ a change is as good as a rest ’ I do agree with you that one needs both in order to end up feeling refreshed . |
| 18 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 19 | But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke . |
| 20 | ‘ I must tell you that I quarrelled violently with your father once . |
| 21 | So she and I ran away from him several times . |
| 22 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 23 | Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again . |
| 24 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 25 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 26 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 27 | thank you and it said there in apportionment , page one , five , three again , calculated from the date of legal completion to the end of the then current half year , will be collected on completion , please note that these are estimated only and will be retrospectively adjusted when audited accounts are available now we 've seen the reflection of that in practice this morning have n't we ? |
| 28 | NatWest Home Improvement Loan Protector is automatically arranged for you unless you indicate otherwise on your loan application form ; there are no complicated proposal forms or medical examination . |
| 29 | ‘ I brought it to Starr Hills for you but you ran away from me without even looking round ! |
| 30 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |