Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who are them blokes bloody make a living then ? |
| 2 | I have given lands and privileges to get knight service , and kept my army in the field by contracts my forefathers never countenanced . |
| 3 | My plans also allow for an additional £30 million to be spent over the next three years on improving our school buildings , an increase of 17 per cent . |
| 4 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 5 | I enjoyed Niall Dickson 's article ‘ Capital punishment ’ ( Body Politic , October 28 ) and was especially pleased to see my views accurately represented . |
| 6 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I do n't know what you 're playing at , but if you think you can foster some sort of … ideas because of what you read the other day in my notes then forget it . |
| 8 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 9 | On that sun-drenched day at Maubisson I kept my fingers well hidden , smiled politely and quietly prayed that these wolves in human flesh were seeking other quarry apart from us . |
| 10 | I somehow avoided all of the obstacles and my fingers soon touched one of the wooden spokes . |
| 11 | I knotted my fingers together to stop me grabbing him round the throat . |
| 12 | Dick had been right all along , how could swaying to ethnic music with my eyes shut or touching another 's face with the tips of my fingers possibly help my cancer ? |
| 13 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 14 | He poked his way swiftly along my teeth then rapped out , " Five fillings and one extraction ! " |
| 15 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 16 | Now I do n't know much about running gags from books previous that I ai n't been in , but it seemed to me that one of them was toting a 7.62 M134 General Electric Minigun , which in my books generally spells schadenfreude . |
| 17 | ‘ But my sessions gradually increased and my double-session intensified systematically until my weekends have also become involved and I am now on seven days a week . ’ |
| 18 | Like , the kids were my kids ' age , and , like , my kids still believe in Santa . |
| 19 | Well a , my kids always got a , something at Christmas not very much at times , and they looked forward to it . |
| 20 | ‘ My kids now feel comfortable in the house when we speak Greek , ’ adds Mr Manimanakis . |
| 21 | ‘ I missed London desperately but I needed my clients here to sit up and and take notice of me and prove to them that I am fit , healthy and looking good again . |
| 22 | So I hobbled away , my shoulders involuntarily hunched against the thought of eyes behind me , watching . |
| 23 | I lay on my bed and my eyes finally fell shut . |
| 24 | My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position . |
| 25 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 26 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 27 | My nose never smelt such noisome smells , and my eyes never beheld such ghastly spectacles ’ . |
| 28 | I stammered out my history , my eyes occasionally wandering to a winter view of rooftops , an opaque winter sky behind his head . |
| 29 | Absurdly , my eyes almost filled with tears of gratitude . |
| 30 | My eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloom , and I managed to grope my way to the station . |