Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 2 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 3 | ‘ One of my staff spoke to that guy McIllvanney . |
| 4 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel proud that my father came from this city , ’ she said slowly . |
| 6 | What my father felt about this conjunction I can only guess . |
| 7 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 8 | Erm , both erm experts are to give evidence before and my Lord included in this bundle with their reports are the documents to which either one or both of these experts have in guard when preparing their reports . |
| 9 | the B eleven O six , a consequence of this County Council 's lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight and that does have some evidence to support that theory and paragraph two point five in my re report , sorry two point three not two point five , two point three in my report referred to that thing . |
| 10 | ‘ My forebears came from this valley , ’ said Lydia . |
| 11 | My son took to this dormitory life with all the fervour of a new convert — hoarding food ( it tastes better after lights out ) ; waking at dawn to pull on whoever 's clothes came to hand . |
| 12 | My mother went to that hospital for … for minor surgery and she died and … suddenly , just being there , it all came rushing back … ’ |
| 13 | But if my mother moved to another house see she could n't afford to refurnish |
| 14 | Their fingers slid inside each other 's clothes , over each other 's skin , stroking , testing . |
| 15 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 16 | The Bank supported the pound the day the trade figures were released and its support grew through that week , culminating in heavy intervention on Thursday and Friday . |
| 17 | The Wordsworths returned to England in May ; their money had in any case run out . |
| 18 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 19 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 20 | Her words tumbled over each other . |
| 21 | Their words ran over each other and they stopped . |
| 22 | Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh . |
| 23 | In the afternoon a 74-year-old woman was killed when her car collided with another vehicle on Ballydougan Road , Downpatrick . |
| 24 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 25 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 26 | Diana is later to tell friends their marriage died on that day . |
| 27 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 28 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 29 | Her body shuddered in another racking sigh . |
| 30 | I 'd also bet that none of the girls in the class is one whit more likely to become a lesbian , or to have the pure white robe of her maidenhood smirched in any way . |