Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 2 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 3 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 5 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 6 | I had to make haste now or I would be late , so I threw my kit in the back of the Porsche , threaded my way through the traffic on the Kingston By-pass and then put my foot down on the M3 , keeping a wary eye open for the police . |
| 7 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 8 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 9 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 11 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 12 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 13 | Just knocked my tooth out with a hammer and chisel , that 's all . " |
| 14 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 15 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 17 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 18 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 19 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 20 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 21 | And I can move my car round into the garage ? |
| 22 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 23 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 24 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 25 | If one goes to the slightly higher figure , which would be more appropriate for inner suburban development , then instead of my cut out for the Land Ranger map , for one and a half square kilometres , one hundred and fifty hectares , one can take the new ten penny piece . |
| 26 | Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu . |
| 27 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 28 | When I ran my spear in for the kill . ’ |
| 29 | I took my child out of the school system because I did n't think the physio she had was right for her needs . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've cut my boss out like a cancer but I ca n't drive past where I used to work , ’ she says . |