Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I much prefer expressing my views publicly in the House to my constituents and others . |
| 2 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 3 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 4 | I grabbed it with my hand and sunk my teeth deep into it . |
| 5 | Then I brushed my teeth thoroughly with my electric toothbrush . |
| 6 | To my contemporaries then at this time , a helmet was possessed of immense symbolic importance . |
| 7 | You 've got your doubts and you know I 've had my doubts right from the |
| 8 | Now I really love dressing up and I 've given all my trainers away to my brother . |
| 9 | ‘ Harry 's carrying my books home from school today . |
| 10 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 11 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 12 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 13 | Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started . |
| 14 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 15 | ‘ grievously tormented with house-keepers … letting the Bible fall open of itself , I fixed my eyes immediately on these words , ‘ When my son was entered into the wedding chamber , he fell down and died . |
| 16 | I practised sticking my chin out and narrowing my eyes suggestively in the mirror . |
| 17 | I closed my eyes tight for once and placed my palms together . |
| 18 | My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor . |
| 19 | I would like to extend my thanks also to the officers who have worked er very , very hard er both sides of the Christmas . |
| 20 | I think that erm er my thanks obviously through , through erm Alan and the meeting for all the hard work that those officers have put it and for their willingness to stand again . |
| 21 | But the case where , choosing my words carefully with full consciousness of what I am doing , I deliberately pronounce on the nature of my present sensory state is not one of them . |
| 22 | But this is an obvious over-simplification , and I would not wish to go back on my words earlier in this chapter about those wise men who claim to see a pattern in history . |
| 23 | I lie naked beneath her duvet , sliding my legs slowly across her undersheet , imagining they trace the patterns that she made . |
| 24 | I thus made my way as quietly as possible to a position from which I could execute such a march , and clutching my implements firmly about me , succeeded in propelling myself through the doorway and several paces down the corridor before a somewhat astonished Miss Kenton could recover her wits . |
| 25 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 26 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 27 | Not quite my feet just above my feet obviously I 've I 've got to move and it it 's more of a shuffling a quick shuffling movement . |
| 28 | Why should God bother with someone who chose deliberately to do something foolish ? ) , so I concentrated on every step , placing my feet carefully among the slippery clods and only enjoying the prospect and the blanket of stillness when pausing for breath . |
| 29 | The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry . |
| 30 | I had three a year and of course in between times you go we had quarter fare if we want to go anywhere , you see and er of course it was the old money in those days and I would come from Ipswich to see my parents here for sixpence halfpenny then and er , you see , I used to go on holiday alone . |