Example sentences of "[pos pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Wordsworths returned to England in May ; their money had in any case run out . |
| 17 | And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road . |
| 18 | Her words tumbled over each other . |
| 19 | Their words ran over each other and they stopped . |
| 20 | Her glance slid from this face to the other and she found herself observed by pale eyes set in bloated white flesh . |
| 21 | In the afternoon a 74-year-old woman was killed when her car collided with another vehicle on Ballydougan Road , Downpatrick . |
| 22 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 23 | Diana is later to tell friends their marriage died on that day . |
| 24 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 25 | Her body shuddered in another racking sigh . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Her confidence grew at each visit . |
| 28 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 29 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 30 | erm , cos Mary that still works in there she , her husband worked for either Mr Henry , I ca n't remember his name , the man that owned it , and I think , I think perhaps they were brothers or something , she , her husband owns it now it 's Freyers or something now |