Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 2 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 3 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 4 | I feel a lot better though about my exams since I 've started revising |
| 5 | It 's a small , firm lump and seems to slip from my fingers when I try to feel it . |
| 6 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
| 7 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 8 | Suzie touches my fingers as I leave her . |
| 9 | Luckily Andrew appreciated the state I was in and carried my skis while I walked down . |
| 10 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
| 11 | But you will let me have my tablets before I go ? |
| 12 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 13 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 14 | ‘ I just looked at my books when I felt like it . |
| 15 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 16 | I slapped my face and pinched my thighs till they hurt . |
| 17 | The instructor must have heard my screams as I felt myself being dragged out as I gasped for air . |
| 18 | Since I refused to acknowledge that I understood a word of Czech or German , I just shrugged my shoulders as they droned on . |
| 19 | Otley put his arm round my shoulders as we made our way to Claro and began to whisper sweet nothings . |
| 20 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 21 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 22 | He even put his arm around my shoulders when he wished me a merry Christmas . |
| 23 | Richard moved about in the bathroom ; the light hurt my eyes so I turned on my stomach and hid my face in the pillow . |
| 24 | I had to take my thumbs out of my nostrils and uncross my eyes before I answered . |
| 25 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 26 | I felt tears come into my eyes as they had into Flora 's at dinner . |
| 27 | Tears came to my eyes as I thought that this was my and Miss Louise 's fault . |
| 28 | Even in winter there had been no " feel " to the soft London air and I half closed my eyes as I followed the tingle all the way down to my lungs . |
| 29 | I was rubbing my eyes as I clambered out of the trench . |
| 30 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |