Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could wank each other off — dry or using lots of lube — or press , rub and slap your dick against his dick , buns , face , chest , thighs … |
| 2 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 3 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 4 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 5 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 6 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 7 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 8 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 9 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 10 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 11 | She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me . |
| 12 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 13 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 14 | In solid-state solar cells the junction between two materials of different electronic properties absorbs light and converts it into electricity . |
| 15 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 16 | We are an organisation specialising in Stearmans and have wide experience of restoring and operating them at our Norfolk base . |
| 17 | When will you realise that so-called ‘ funny-man ’ Vic Reeves is n't actually funny and see him for what he is — a talentless , dumb Northerner . |
| 18 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 19 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 21 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 22 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 23 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 24 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 25 | He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate , fumbling in his jacket pocket for something . |
| 26 | His body shuddered , and then his tolerance disintegrated and he wrenched his arms free and wrapped them round her , holding her hard against him . |
| 27 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 28 | Scott reached slowly inside his jacket then pulled the Beretta free and handed it to Hitch , who gripped the automatic in his fist and checked that the magazine was full , slipping it from the butt . |
| 29 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 30 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |