Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the noise made by one of my sons playing his electric guitar . |
2 | to see my fingers counting themselves , dancing . |
3 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
4 | ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’ |
5 | mm , mm my shoulders hurting me |
6 | The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley . |
7 | I sat in front of him watching as he ate , my eyes following his hand from the moment his fingers plunged into the bowl until it rose into the air , and carried the food into his mouth . |
8 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
9 | Or were my ears playing me up ? ’ |
10 | But all I 'm asking for is an all-glass tank four feet long , and around 18″ × 18″ so that I can watch my shoals patrolling its full length . |
11 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
12 | And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all . |
13 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
14 | Got all my missiles following me . |
15 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
16 | I 'm just going to rely on my players behaving themselves and trust that the referee interprets the rules with the realisation that it is a competition . ’ |
17 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
18 | Filings of biscuity paper wedge under my fingernails causing me real pain . |
19 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
20 | ‘ I heard one of my men calling my name . |
21 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
22 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
23 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
24 | She would n't want cats ' hairs on her clothes or their claws snagging her tights . |
25 | This works even when recipients are away from their desks providing their PC is left on — ‘ far more efficient than sticking a Post-It note on their screen , ’ Richard smiled . |
26 | She waved her hand , her fingers skimming his . |
27 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
28 | Feverishly , Folly clutched at him , her arms twining around the broadness of his back ; her fingers raking his flesh . |
29 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
30 | She entered the room after a gentle knock , and saw that Faye was lying on her back in the large , luxurious bed , her shoulders raised on pillows and her fingers massaging her abdomen tentatively . |