Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 2 | For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico — I was crying . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to hand my cans in as mayor to lead the way , ’ said Coun Bolland . |
| 4 | I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either . |
| 5 | Will you commute or should I move my base down to London ? ’ |
| 6 | They had to snip bits of my skin away with scissors — extremely painful — and search under the microscope for these worms , which eventually without treatment can burrow up to your eyes . |
| 7 | I need to be able to see the path ahead in order to plan my route well in advance , or else I may get myself into an awkward position . |
| 8 | I know because I called around early and took my sister out for tea . |
| 9 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 10 | I earned my living mainly from teaching . |
| 11 | ‘ Harry 's carrying my books home from school today . |
| 12 | So there I sat , my mind still in Fisherton-de-la-Mare , hurtling north-west up the motorway , feeling most unco-operative . |
| 13 | ‘ Tom Horrocks has put my mind quite at rest , ’ he said . |
| 14 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 15 | ‘ The time you washed my mouth out with soap . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have my house and my car up for sale to help pay for costs when I 'm over there . |
| 18 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 19 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 20 | getting my key up with heaters , getting my key up with heaters |
| 21 | getting my key up with heaters , getting my key up with heaters |
| 22 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 23 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 24 | My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor . |
| 25 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 26 | As soon as I get my legs out of bed , that 's first thing I pick up , my glasses . |
| 27 | I still have to stitch er , erm my cardigan up for Melanie but erm it was easy to start off the other one while I was talking to your mother . |
| 28 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 29 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 30 | Somehow , though , she managed to keep her head , ‘ Of course , ’ she replied , but quickly followed up , ‘ Though I always prefer to write my work down in longhand first . ’ |