Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructor must have heard my screams as I felt myself being dragged out as I gasped for air . |
| 2 | Nominees who do not attend the party conference shall be deemed to have withdrawn their nominations unless they send to the secretary on or before the date on which the conference opens an explanation in writing of their absence , satisfactory to the party Conference Arrangements Committee . |
| 3 | I 've done my exams and I think I 've done well in them . |
| 4 | and he goes why were you in my , why am I in my underwear seen my pants and he goes ah , here 's a message on my knee and he goes P S Sue Carpenter and they look at each other and they go , Sue Carpenter whoooo and then the mouse traps go off and it ends with them going |
| 5 | You 've seen my cuttings and you 've seen what 's been on the News the last couple of days . |
| 6 | And erm they 've done their teeth and they 've had a wash and they 've done everything really so all you 've got to do is get them in there . |
| 7 | He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man . |
| 8 | Monsieur Félix will expect us to have made our choices and we have not even looked at the velvets yet . ’ |
| 9 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 10 | I 've got my glasses but I have n't got the . |
| 11 | my kids have n't had any food all weekend that I 've paid for because you did n't send me my giro , they 've had their meals because they 've been round there at grandma 's , but I 'm not telling you that , yeah , you know . |
| 12 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 13 | He says he receives no money from BSDI for his code though he alleges BSDI has told its customers that he does . |
| 14 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 15 | But last night Souness insisted : ‘ Michael has had his troubles since he came to the club . |
| 16 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 17 | You 've got your doubts and you know I 've had my doubts right from the |
| 18 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 19 | The plot was working and the characters had played their parts as she intended . |
| 20 | Is he also aware that some of his colleagues have damaged their interests because they talked out a Bill designed to outlaw discrimination against disabled people ? |
| 21 | The weather inland was much too dry for him ; there was an earthquake at Agadir ; the heat and dust affected his lungs and he succumbed to a bout of bronchial asthma . |
| 22 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 23 | She lifted an enquiring eyebrow , wondering if it would have suited his purposes if she 'd said nothing , because he could then have accused her of theft . |
| 24 | Well last night I thought oh I 'd better cut her toenails cos I had n't done them for weeks like . |
| 25 | I think the committee has already indicated its views but I do n't think that is its views where they may not have entirely coincided with a particular District Health Authority are really part of a dialogue towards consensus rather than any fundamental difference put it that way . |
| 26 | He had never struck his children but he felt suddenly that he would like to shake this sullen brat until her teeth rattled . |
| 27 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 28 | I intend no harm to her if she 'd have left her squealings and I did no harm neither but to myself . |
| 29 | This enables the bat to cool down as it flies , so if pterosaurs needed to cool down they must have worked their wings as they flew , and probably were endothermic . |
| 30 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |