Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] and " 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 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 5 | Now I think if my body still moves and people enjoy it that 's OK . ’ |
| 6 | The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide . |
| 7 | ‘ We discovered time travel , but my people just sit and watch the events of the universe without getting involved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She would have her hair nicely done and I might be doing a bit of sewing . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | Their images rarely arrest and their rhythms sound clumsy both in sung and spoken delivery . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Isabel lay looking up at him , her lips softly parted and moist from his kisses , eyes heavy-lidded with love and longing . |
| 24 | Blinking her eyes rapidly to try and clear her head , Sarah said , ‘ Come inside and I 'll go and look . ’ |
| 25 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Luke , ’ she groaned , her eyes still closed and the tormenting vision still vivid on her mind . |
| 27 | Her rival never rebuilt and had to give up . ’ |
| 28 | And then her legs gently folded and she subsided slowly on the step , ungainly as a marionette . |
| 29 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 30 | Labour was still in deep disarray , its campaign badly led and generally disorganized . |