Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass . |
| 2 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 3 | I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope . |
| 4 | I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace . |
| 5 | Sometimes I 'd stamp my foot and cry in a completely feminine burst of frustration and he 'd stand bewildered , pleading ignorance and apologising . |
| 6 | In her relations with Willy she has constantly to choose between her ‘ postface ’ and her ‘ preface ’ : ‘ I shall put on my postface and mimagree , unless I put on my preface and go through the routine ’ ( 16,138 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ For God 's sake , Jimmy , get my stick and cuffs from the bar . ’ |
| 8 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 9 | I moved my pyjamas , spare underclothes , a couple of shirts and a few other necessaries from my bungalow and stayed in the hospital bed next to Jimbo 's , snatching sleep and meals when Miss Sowerby took over . |
| 10 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 11 | I fumbled Lewis 's key into the ignition , the gauntlets handicapping my fingers and adding to the impression that I felt like a spaceman dropped into molasses for gravity training . |
| 12 | I quenched the candle flame with my fingers and slid into the bed chamber . |
| 13 | As I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep snow slope , I remembered Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , tailed to the edge of a very high cliff by the posse . |
| 14 | so I slung my hook and went for a coffee . |
| 15 | The wide chimney went without a nut and at the limit of the rope I toppled over my sack and sank onto a ledge . |
| 16 | And when I was throwing my rackets and talking to the umpire it was breaking my concentration . |
| 17 | Once I had sucked my third of a pint of milk dry I picked up my books and returned to the lecture theatre . |
| 18 | I 've gone over and over that kiss in my mind and come to the conclusion that it was the kind of exuberant gesture that footballers bestow on goal-scorers . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 20 | I was out of my seat and running along the road before he had finished . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ What I really miss is jumping into my car and popping to the shops . ’ |
| 22 | So I abandoned my car and watched from a pedestrian walkway high above Charing Cross . |
| 23 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 24 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |
| 25 | I hissed , closing my eyes and leaning against the lintel of the stable . |
| 26 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 27 | I just closed my eyes and breathed through the contractions . |
| 28 | On this particular journey I occasionally opened my eyes and peered through the slats of the truck . |
| 29 | I shut my eyes and tremble with the effort to get it vividly in my mind . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes and concentrated on the voice , and I thought it was n't you , but I did n't really know . |