Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 2 | ‘ But my sessions gradually increased and my double-session intensified systematically until my weekends have also become involved and I am now on seven days a week . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My legs slightly raised and on my left side , ’ Faye finished for him , deliberately parroting the words . |
| 4 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 5 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 6 | Now I think if my body still moves and people enjoy it that 's OK . ’ |
| 7 | The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide . |
| 8 | ‘ We discovered time travel , but my people just sit and watch the events of the universe without getting involved . |
| 9 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 10 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 11 | I wrote asking if my information still applied or had some legal restrictions been imposed since the programme had been shown ? |
| 12 | They can be a bit thick at the best of times , ; you know that amphora you sent me ? well my lot only went and peed in it — I have to go now , Tony 's coming for his Osso Buco . |
| 13 | ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing . |
| 14 | gear with my forehead with such force that my goggles , which I was wearing luckily , were shattered and my face badly bruised and bleeding profusely . |
| 15 | I was sure that my mother neither understood nor agreed with what Lili was saying , but the mention of these classic works of literature compelled her to reveal at least her knowledge of their existence . |
| 16 | All the women in the village had dressed in their best clothes with their hair freshly oiled and plaited , their earrings , nose-rings and necklaces of Indian silver rupees washed and glinting in the sunlight . |
| 17 | Many of the illustrious are there too , their signatures sometimes smudged or rain-spotted , but nonetheless memorable for that : Hobbs , Sandham , and Strudwick ; Nichols and O'Connor ; Hammond and Charlie Parker ; Hallows , Watson and Makepeace ; Freeman and Woolley ( the short and the tall ) ; the 1928 West Indians , including Learie Constantine ; and the ‘ All-Indian ’ tourists of 1932 . |
| 18 | Yeah , that unfortunately the majority of people say you 'll get money in a couple of days , then the person would start to argue , because they need their money now to go and buy their shopping . |
| 19 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 20 | By the end of the afternoon she had replaced her wardrobe from top to tail , had acquired an evening dress that was out of this world , and had had her hair freshly washed and styled . |
| 21 | Athelstan 's pleasure increased when-he saw that Benedicta , her hair now braided and hidden under a wimple , had a small basket by her side in preparation for their journey to Smithfield . |
| 22 | She would have her hair nicely done and I might be doing a bit of sewing . |
| 23 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 24 | The Restaurant , although renowned for its seafood also boasts and good selection of meat and poultry dishes as well as vegetarian dishes e.g. the special vegetarian paella . |
| 25 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 26 | Their images rarely arrest and their rhythms sound clumsy both in sung and spoken delivery . |
| 27 | All in all , a great day and night was had by all and the hygiene northern area sales teams returned to their branches fully motivated and ready to make 1992/3 their best sales year ever . |
| 28 | Mambo Leo was popular not for its opinions but because it was well produced , entertaining and readable ; nevertheless , its popularity did not mean that its readers either believed or trusted it . |
| 29 | Isabel lay looking up at him , her lips softly parted and moist from his kisses , eyes heavy-lidded with love and longing . |
| 30 | Blinking her eyes rapidly to try and clear her head , Sarah said , ‘ Come inside and I 'll go and look . ’ |