Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 2 | He stretched himself before he picked up his large paper parcel along with Tommy 's life possessions . |
| 3 | ‘ Stuff and nonsense , ’ Captain Simcox muttered to himself as he threw back his head , downed the last of his whiskey and dried the ends of his thick red moustache with finger and thumb . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall check my unpleasant little visitor 's home in the morning , ’ said Moore to himself as he picked up his books from the floor . |
| 5 | I learned a lot from her , and when she and Wilson came to tea with me and we walked round my garden , she gave me a lot of good advice , evidently amazed at the poverty of my crops — ‘ These are not … your Brussels ? ’ |
| 6 | You come down here to see me and you beat up my son . ’ |
| 7 | He climbed out of Armstrong on my side and stood over me until I pushed down my window . |
| 8 | And in fact it 's quite interesting sort of analysis this because erm I , I actually think that the erm the best er well it helps you if you know where your preference is , because if , if then you 're behaving in the other area then you know that that 's not re your preference |
| 9 | Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’ |
| 10 | There are scenes in variety , but connected by an interesting theme and one that she made particularly her own , the self-deceiver . |
| 11 | The voyage will certainly be a very expensive one but I doubt not my work will have a great sale in consequence and if so amply repay me for my exertions . |
| 12 | Carrie 's bright blue eyes mirrored her good health and she hummed happily to herself as she brushed down her best coat . |
| 13 | ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’ |
| 14 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 15 | It did n't occur to her that it showed off her pretty fair hair to perfection , and did wonders for her figure . |
| 16 | Perhaps in the Eighties , it began to dawn on him and he cleaned up his act but by then some of the early potential had passed . |
| 17 | She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up . |
| 18 | Isabelle hits him and he jerks up his head , his eyes wide and glassy . |
| 19 | ‘ That was Ivo , my housekeeper 's husband , ’ Vendelin Gajdusek enlightened her as he fell into step with her and she sharpened up her pace , to match his . |
| 20 | He dragged her after him until they stood over her father 's body . |
| 21 | Grizel Huntley reached out to comfort her but she forced back her chair and fled , clutching her handbag and napkin , leaving her mother with the ruins of lunch . |
| 22 | The wind blew her hair out behind her as she held up her face to the sun , still warm in its caress . |
| 23 | His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip . |
| 24 | A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look . |
| 25 | All eyes were fixed on him as he held up his hand . |
| 26 | She was still a way from him when he stretched out his left hand to grasp hers from a distance . |
| 27 | It 's confidential — I mean , you would n't like it if we gave out your address would you ? ’ |
| 28 | For Canguilhem the history of a concept will have its own specific temporality , demonstrating less a process of epistemological self-correction as in the pure sciences than the persistence of the problem within all the contradictory solutions and ideological values that have been given to it and which make up its history . |
| 29 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 30 | Now move it before I kick both your arses ! ’ |