Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of them curses and walks away . |
| 32 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 33 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 34 | them togs and whatnot |
| 35 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 36 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 37 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 38 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 39 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 40 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 41 | Yet now , ’ his look was amicable , ‘ you , Miss Kingsdale , with your haughty manner ’ her haughty manner ? ‘ wish me to at once revoke my plans and allow you to ask me endless work-orientated questions . ’ |
| 42 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 43 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 44 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 45 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 46 | But then hands of steel get hold of my ankles and start pulling at me — pulling pulling pulling . |
| 47 | ‘ No , I do n't get pissed off and run to my guitar and write a song . |
| 48 | I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope . |
| 49 | If I shift in my harness and lean nervously backwards I can see my partner creeping nearer on a wall of loosely compacted rubble , brushing and blowing the sand from the holds as he swings upwards . |
| 50 | Maybe the imminence of the new technology was the moment to hang up my briefcase and say good luck to the thrusting new young generation . |
| 51 | I 've had more fun wiping the blood of a blue-bottomed bloggert off my broadsword than watching that pile of pus ! |
| 52 | It was my heart that broke when he went , yet I never had him searched for ; I durs n't think what 'd come , if he saw the lad now . |
| 53 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 54 | She took my heart and squashed the sucker flat . |
| 55 | ‘ Cross my heart and hope to die , ’ Charlie stated solemnly . |
| 56 | Ollie 's Honour , cross my heart and hope to become a Girl Guide . |
| 57 | ‘ Cross my heart and hope to die . ’ |
| 58 | at the crossroads by hampstead tube station i lay down in my heart and wept … |
| 59 | ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry . ’ |
| 60 | After listening to my heart and extracting a syringe-full of blood from an artery , they connected my right arm to the drip-feed . |