Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 2 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 3 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 4 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |
| 6 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 7 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 8 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 9 | I had n't come all this way to see my sons turn into doctors . |
| 10 | Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range . |
| 11 | There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe . |
| 12 | At my back my trusty longbow My broadsword clanks at my side , My outlaws gallop behind me As into adventure we ride . |
| 13 | After singing " Do n't think twice , it 's all right " , Dylan 's greatest song , my heart feels like shredded cabbage . |
| 14 | I heard a terrible pounding in my ears , my heart thudding like a drum , my stomach lurching as I swung on the end of the rope . |
| 15 | I feel my heart beat like a boy 's |
| 16 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 17 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 18 | It 's just — ’ here he shot a glance at Sarella ‘ — my heart happens to be engaged elsewhere . ’ |
| 19 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 20 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 21 | True intimacy begins when we cry out to God in the words of Psalm 27 : ‘ My heart says of you , ‘ Seek his face ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My heart fell to my boots , ’ Henrietta told another , ‘ for I dreaded that he was going to choose me and he did . ’ |
| 23 | Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me . |
| 24 | My stomach contracted and my heart went into a somersault . |
| 25 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 26 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 27 | I can not tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth . |
| 28 | When the Prime Minister said , on his appointment , that he wanted Britain to be at the heart of Europe , my heart leaped with joy . |
| 29 | Indeed , the author recalls at the EPP Conference he attended in the Reichstag in Berlin before the last European elections , a leading German politician advocating a federal Europe in vivid emotional terms : ‘ My heart rages with passion at the thought of a Single Government and a Single Parliament ’ . |
| 30 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |