Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a novel which communicates the notion that talented and untalented meet in that country of the mind where everyone copies and steals from everyone else , where everything is reproductive or reminiscent of everything else , where one thing leads to another and this person passes into that . |
| 2 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 3 | She detailed Amy to take them into the interview room and give them tea and stay with them , and she and Ben went alongside the trolley into Resus . |
| 4 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 5 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 6 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 7 | I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope . |
| 8 | I think this single gimmick was enough to provide the detection element wile Ghote 's investigations among the more likely looking suspects enabled me , with diversions , to tell my story and to reflect in various ways on lines drawn and wedges advanced . |
| 9 | I showered carefully , starting at my hair and ending between my toes and under my toenails . |
| 10 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 11 | The young doctor in charge of my case insisted on telling my GP and wrote to him , but the letter was later withdrawn and suppressed by his superior at my request . |
| 12 | I slipped out of my hiding-place and went to St John 's Wood . |
| 13 | ‘ And it was you who searched my case and came into my room in the night and opened my bag . |
| 14 | is a one in a thousand one in a thousand like my my Gerald that thought about his duties , his responsibilities , his tender fatherly fig . |
| 15 | It 's about the size of one joint on your little finger , and it went sideways through my chest and stopped in my right arm . |
| 16 | I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace . |
| 17 | I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of . |
| 18 | Sometimes I 'd stamp my foot and cry in a completely feminine burst of frustration and he 'd stand bewildered , pleading ignorance and apologising . |
| 19 | In her relations with Willy she has constantly to choose between her ‘ postface ’ and her ‘ preface ’ : ‘ I shall put on my postface and mimagree , unless I put on my preface and go through the routine ’ ( 16,138 ) . |
| 20 | Quelling panic , I took out my notes and glanced through them hastily . |
| 21 | ‘ For God 's sake , Jimmy , get my stick and cuffs from the bar . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 23 | Give up my PhD and live off Charles and have babies ? ’ |
| 24 | He nodded in my direction and looked at his watch . |
| 25 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 26 | You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments . |
| 27 | I moved my pyjamas , spare underclothes , a couple of shirts and a few other necessaries from my bungalow and stayed in the hospital bed next to Jimbo 's , snatching sleep and meals when Miss Sowerby took over . |
| 28 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 29 | I fumbled Lewis 's key into the ignition , the gauntlets handicapping my fingers and adding to the impression that I felt like a spaceman dropped into molasses for gravity training . |
| 30 | I quenched the candle flame with my fingers and slid into the bed chamber . |