Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 2 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 3 | The Royal Geographical Society approved my plans and made me a grant , as did the Percy Sladen Trust of the Linnean Society . |
| 4 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 5 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 6 | I went up the steps until the water barely covered my ankles and tried the doorlatch . |
| 7 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 8 | It was my heart that broke when he went , yet I never had him searched for ; I durs n't think what 'd come , if he saw the lad now . |
| 9 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 10 | She took my heart and squashed the sucker flat . |
| 11 | at the crossroads by hampstead tube station i lay down in my heart and wept … |
| 12 | He seemed very moved by my story and said he intended to write an article about it . |
| 13 | Again they swallowed my story and gave me a year 's conditional discharge . |
| 14 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 15 | I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs , then I went round and knocked on the door . |
| 16 | Good old Bri , he just looked at me and my hair and said , ‘ It 's a porcupine ! ’ |
| 17 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 18 | Then someone took a grip on my hair and pulled . |
| 19 | They shaved off my hair and sewed up my head . |
| 20 | I tried to meditate to stimulate my faith but gave up . |
| 21 | I broke my faith and smoked one . |
| 22 | The young doctor in charge of my case insisted on telling my GP and wrote to him , but the letter was later withdrawn and suppressed by his superior at my request . |
| 23 | I slipped out of my hiding-place and went to St John 's Wood . |
| 24 | on my part that did n't get passed down and it is important that 's . |
| 25 | ‘ And it was you who searched my case and came into my room in the night and opened my bag . |
| 26 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 27 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 28 | I pulled off my shirt and threw it beyond the woodpile . |
| 29 | I opened my shirt and bared my chest and said , Go ahead . ’ |
| 30 | is a one in a thousand one in a thousand like my my Gerald that thought about his duties , his responsibilities , his tender fatherly fig . |