Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hung on his every word at dinner , and after coffee , when la Principessa excused herself and retired and the little group adjourned to the sitting-room for liquers and brandy , Sofia dropped to a cushion at his feet and gazed worshipfully into his face . |
| 2 | Lydia found it remarkable that the people who fussed most about their health with particular reference to diet and exercise seemed rather ill , just as those who enthused most warmly about sexual freedom were rather plain . |
| 3 | It was claimed that the children lived mostly with their grandmother , Cynthia Dawson , near their home in Tottenham , London . |
| 4 | But before all the sex trouble got properly into its swing there was all the other trouble brewing between Anwar and Changez . |
| 5 | However , he cared little about his life at this time , and it was possible that this lone female might be in need of courteous assistance . |
| 6 | His progress towards the bureau was remarked upon by two elderly ladies who beamed appreciatively in his direction . |
| 7 | Her long blonde hair tumbled artistically about her person . |
| 8 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she whispered bitterly against his mouth , and when he refused to stop she bit hard into his lower lip . |
| 9 | For a half-century — interrupted only by his war service from 1914 to 1918 — de Pomiane also made cookery and cookery writing his hobby and second profession . |
| 10 | Steve whispered fiercely under his breath . |
| 11 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 12 | He lived apparently by his writing , which accounts perhaps for his translation of Thomas Burnet 's notoriously heterodox State of the Dead ( 1727 ) . |
| 13 | Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years . |
| 14 | A moment later the French boy returned carrying a Mauser .350 slung carelessly over his shoulder . |
| 15 | Clutching it protectively in front of her , she stared in dry-mouthed terror at a very tall , dark , athletic-looking man , clad in a lightweight beige suit , with the jacket off and slung carelessly over his shoulder , suspended on one negligent finger . |
| 16 | She and Alan lived together at her father 's house until after she had the baby , an experience that Alan did not enjoy . |
| 17 | The lingering tingling sensations caused by the whip glowed all over her body . |
| 18 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 19 | He was conscious that this loner of a man lived only for his work . |
| 20 | Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay . |
| 21 | Something spattered all over his face : he put up his hand and his fingers came away red . |
| 22 | Mind you — ’ he gazed thoughtfully into his cup ‘ — I do n't think it 's easy for a girl . |
| 23 | He sucked slowly at his pipe and blew out a cloud of smoke which disappeared into the haze all around us . |
| 24 | The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again . |
| 25 | And of a sudden all things moved onward in their course . |
| 26 | And of a sudden all things moved onward in their course . |
| 27 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 28 | He moved uneasily on his chair . |
| 29 | I remember putting the door mat over my head , as the engine mechanism of the bomb stopped right over our house . |
| 30 | McAggott rose wearily from his desk and smote the sergeant a blow to the skull . |