Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took off my cloak and immediately began to thread the fabric through the hole . |
| 2 | I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart . |
| 3 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 4 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 5 | A special Cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Margaret Thatcher had been set up to review my proposals and effectively to decide whether they would become Government policy . |
| 6 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 7 | We used to take showers together in my apartment and then wander around naked until we were dry . |
| 8 | Two of my favourite and most loved leading men are there — Simon Williams and Nigel Hawthorne — and an immodest amount of hugging and shrieking of ‘ darling heart ’ ensues . |
| 9 | The following day I hired a van , loaded up my possessions and then handed over my keys to the landlord . |
| 10 | He turned a face of mean-eyed fury in my direction and easily transferred his hatred . |
| 11 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 12 | But if I want to play real loud I just go down to my basement — I have a stack down in my basement and just crank that up ! ’ |
| 13 | I pulled off my boots , put the stick between my teeth and gently went down the rope into the water . |
| 14 | In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him that is formless . |
| 15 | ‘ Acting is in my blood and always has been , ’ said Akram . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've changed a great deal , Angharad , ’ he said , ‘ you were just a little girl when I finished my apprenticeship and now look at you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ May I say my piece and then hear yours ? ’ , |
| 18 | Wu clapped his hand over my mouth and daftly said nothing himself . |
| 19 | As I struggled free he thrust an envelope into my mouth and then drove off . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't mind being criticised for my football nor indeed do the other players but personal abuse is something else . |
| 21 | Here , put that thing round my shoulders and then keep your bone-box shut . |
| 22 | I clasped my hands tight over my eyes and scarcely breathed . |
| 23 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 24 | They were good to me , too , and I recall young John Thwaites being sent down to our farm one Christmas with such a big rosy red apple that I can close my eyes and still see it now . |
| 25 | To everyone within the division who has worked particularly hard this year to establish and improve our business , I would like to pass on my thanks and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year . |
| 26 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 27 | One of my greatest pleasures was to load my gun , draw the curtains in my bedroom and then crawl under the bed . |
| 28 | I was thus in the interesting position of paying to be patronized , asset-stripping my future and still cutting a despicable figure . |
| 29 | About half past eight I would feed my horse and then have my breakfast . |
| 30 | The pilot study helped identify specific areas that restricted my practice and therefore limited my effectiveness |