Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass .
5 I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope .
6 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 .
7 I showered carefully , starting at my hair and ending between my toes and under my toenails .
8 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 .
9 The young doctor in charge of my case insisted on telling my GP and wrote to him , but the letter was later withdrawn and suppressed by his superior at my request .
10 I slipped out of my hiding-place and went to St John 's Wood .
11 ‘ And it was you who searched my case and came into my room in the night and opened my bag .
12 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 .
13 I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace .
14 I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of .
15 Sometimes I 'd stamp my foot and cry in a completely feminine burst of frustration and he 'd stand bewildered , pleading ignorance and apologising .
16 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 ) .
17 ‘ For God 's sake , Jimmy , get my stick and cuffs from the bar . ’
18 ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished .
19 Give up my PhD and live off Charles and have babies ? ’
20 He nodded in my direction and looked at his watch .
21 It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon .
22 You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments .
23 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 .
24 I take off my jumper and stand in my tank top , sipping a whiskey I have been bought .
25 Last autumn , Lynda and I flew to New England to visit my sister and to take in some birdwatching and camping in New Hampshire and Maine .
26 But he got married my sister and lived in house down there and er that 's how I got a job there .
27 ‘ But I can never go into my kitchen and cook for my husband .
28 so I slung my hook and went for a coffee .
29 The wide chimney went without a nut and at the limit of the rope I toppled over my sack and sank onto a ledge .
30 I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back .
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