Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must put my Saviour always before me as my example , friend and guide . |
| 2 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 3 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 4 | For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico — I was crying . |
| 5 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 6 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 7 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 8 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 9 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 10 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 11 | Cos I definitely want my hair long for when we get married . |
| 12 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 13 | I straightened my tie and guided my hair back with my hands . |
| 14 | them into my hair out of sheer joy , and |
| 15 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 16 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 17 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 18 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 20 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 21 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 22 | I had to make haste now or I would be late , so I threw my kit in the back of the Porsche , threaded my way through the traffic on the Kingston By-pass and then put my foot down on the M3 , keeping a wary eye open for the police . |
| 23 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 24 | As she was to tell one of her oldest friends : ‘ I only wish I 'd put my foot down with them years ago . ’ |
| 25 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 26 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 27 | I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either . |
| 28 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 29 | Will you commute or should I move my base down to London ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You leave my trenchcoat out of this . ’ |