Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last she stretched out her own hand , but as he took it he allowed it to rest briefly in his before he tightened his grip , applying the necessary force to assist her to her feet . |
| 2 | ‘ I guess they 'll get round to dragging it off to the junk yard , ’ said Billie , her arm linked through his as they made their way back towards the car . |
| 3 | To my astonishment and chagrin Ellen left her hand in his as he opened his eyes and smiled at her . |
| 4 | Angrily he crushed her mouth harder against his as he plundered her lips with a ferocity that took her breath away . |
| 5 | Duncan was too afraid to taste them so he shut his baby dinosaur lips and shook his head again . |
| 6 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |
| 7 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 8 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him to wear plastic but he said he could n't feel it ’ is reinforced by the line , ‘ ask them if they paid their child support last week ’ . |
| 10 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 11 | Aye I must ask you once you once you had your sort of main tunnels built and your light and then you would start concentrating on your chambers ? |
| 12 | Excuse me , Excuse me if you if you used your mouth as well as your brain you 'd be better off , the thing is this that quite honestly nobody here has the right , do you like the way that gentleman looks ? |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been following you since you left your hotel yesterday , ’ Ryker told her . |
| 14 | What was life like for you before you had your cottage here ? |
| 15 | ‘ It must have occurred to you before you dropped your bombshell that it would distract Simon , ’ Vitor said , starting to pace up and down the confined space like an enraged tiger trapped in a too small cage . |
| 16 | ‘ Because somebody was asking Kenny about you when he had his accident . ’ |
| 17 | How old were you when you had your first sexual experience ? |
| 18 | with you in the way it is run when you when I took my allegations to him because that 's basically what they 're saying it is I know it 's no allegations |
| 19 | I only found out about you when I saw his car parked outside that night . ’ |
| 20 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 21 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 22 | Well , old was doing the the executorship for them because he poked his nose into everything ! |
| 23 | Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there . |
| 24 | They were whisked away from the theatre by an ever vigilant matron , who stood over them while they had their dreaded wash with cold water from the jug and basin in their room . |
| 25 | Nothing but disaster has attended me since I left your side . |
| 26 | ‘ Wilhelm wo n't speak to me since I chucked his Filofax in the jacuzzi . |
| 27 | I was distracted with grief this time , torn by guilt , and Eric had to look after me while I acted my part to perfection , though I say it myself . |
| 28 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 29 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 30 | ‘ Dearest Belinda ’ er … , no , I know , Belinda 's into poetry ; it 'd really impress her if I made my note into a poem ! |