Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I also pass on my thanks to your master for providing such a great venue for my business lunches . |
| 2 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 3 | ‘ We always started seriously , usually discussing Louisa and perhaps her problems with her legs which stopped her doing her old-time dancing . ’ |
| 4 | From the other side , leaving only her fingers around its edge , she said , ‘ Good-night . |
| 5 | The rain was cold on their heads and streamed down their necks inside their clothing . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the Croats , throwing down their arms in their bivouac areas , had commenced moving down the main road in a dense mass , urged on by the Partisans at the back who were discharging arms in all directions . |
| 7 | In one study subjects were required to telephone the local weather information service on awakening , and to record a few details of the weather forecast on the top of their diary sheet before writing down their accounts of their dreams . |
| 8 | Five grandfathers are less favourably remembered as drunkards : at least two passed down their habits to their sons — ‘ dad had a poor bringing up ’ — while a third son was provoked into signing the teetotal pledge . |
| 9 | Rose began to rub faster and faster and started to pull down her knickers with her free hand . |
| 10 | Down went his fingers , down her arms to her elbows , cupping them in his palms , feeling the smoothness , while all the time his mouth explored the nape of her neck , the small bones down her spine to the sensitive areas of her upper back . |
| 11 | She had begin to accept it now , but there was still a yearning deep inside her , his absence a constant nagging ache in her heart , and her business enterprise seemed to have been affected too , for it was as though some of her confidence had drained away , running down her cheeks with her tears . |
| 12 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |
| 13 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 14 | This was on ‘ the night of the long knives ’ , when Macmillan dismissed seven of his Cabinet ( including Eccles ) and provoked the remark from Jeremy Thorpe : ‘ Greater love hath no man than this , that a man lay down his friends for his life . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ GREATER LOVE hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister , ’ a Cabinet minister said in Blackpool on hearing of the sacrifice made by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 16 | Denis Healey Greater love hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister . |
| 17 | She eased down his pants to his ankles , and she saw that his cock was already as stiff as a poker . |
| 18 | Morse was talking again now , though — getting into his swing again , it seemed , and she took down his words in her swift and deftly stroked outlines . |
| 19 | So his fears about his cousin 's strange hostility were , it seems , unfounded . |
| 20 | We confess together our failures in your service and ask forgiveness and healing for we are not worthy but your love makes us your children . |
| 21 | The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive . |
| 22 | I can see your poor little furious red face now , glaring at me and the tears kept running down your cheeks into your ears and I remember wondering if one 's brain could become waterlogged . |
| 23 | 1 John 3:16 goes on to say , ‘ And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . ’ |
| 24 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 25 | Nevertheless my problems with my master 's open-handed generosity persisted . |
| 26 | And it is essential that we should be the ones who control just which parts of our brains we use so that we can achieve what we have decided are our goals . |
| 27 | Instead , she will hand over her sons to their nanny and detectives on Christmas Eve , for delivery , with their presents , to Sandringham . |
| 28 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 29 | Sniffing and wiping away her tears with her fists like a child , she climbed out and hastily dragged on her dressing-gown . |
| 30 | Very soon her competitors in their showrooms on the other side of Oxford Street or in the side streets off Bond Street knew that she was in trouble . |