Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 2 | He 's yet to score for Swindon and its rumoured his future with the club looks shaky . |
| 3 | The principal charges against her concerned her participation in the 1977 murder of a banker , Jürgen Ponto , and in the 1979 attempted murder of Gen. Alexander Haig , then NATO Commander-in-Chief . |
| 4 | Neil adds that they 've collected money for charity up and down the mountains and its restored his faith in human nature |
| 5 | We 'll knock them oan their knees by Christmas … the hale jing bang o' thae Proosians . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When Florence Nightingale said bluntly that if you overcrowded your soldiers in dirty quarters there would be an outbreak of smallpox , she was snubbed as an ignorant female who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation of its specific microbe , ’ Shaw remarks . |
| 7 | No way he , Zitney Trench could tell her , Claudettina Wolveridge , née Schlitz , the way he felt when she half-closed her eyes at him , or reached up to take a box-file down from the section marked ‘ Insolvency ’ . |
| 8 | Beckett , who fine-toned his philosophy of life to its very essentials , not surprisingly remained a Guinness drinker to the end . |
| 9 | ‘ I take it you have between you concerted your schemes for my future ? ’ |
| 10 | To do this she unwrapped her legs from each other , bent her right knee briefly and peered into the empty glass . |
| 11 | She half-hooded her eyes as the room shifted on its moorings . |
| 12 | So you you bandy her name about . |
| 13 | They half-carried her back to Greg 's flat which was a couple of streets away . |
| 14 | The Prior had opened his mouth to state that , in his opinion , Robert of Gloucester was unlikely to throw casually aside his loyalty to his half-sister , no matter what councils he might have attended , but this statement made him close his lips on the words . |
| 15 | On the street he unseamed his package in a ferment of grew fluff . |
| 16 | ‘ Or was it just your way of halting a situation that was getting out of control ? ’ |
| 17 | COR , WHAT A THIGHFUL : Fergie stretches out on her sun lounger and gives the world a look at what just what kind of shape she 's in |
| 18 | DIPLOMACY prevents our revealing which member of the happily returned Durham cricket touring party was accosted near the team hotel in Harare by a lady of the Zimbabwean night . |
| 19 | ‘ They came out to our meetings to help us , to encourage us , and they helped us present our case to the Government . |