Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 2 | If you got tired and worried , she 'd say , ‘ Come on , comb my hair for me . ’ |
| 3 | Comb my hair before 7.00am ; 4 . |
| 4 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 5 | But how could I have explained my actions to Mum , having promised to turn up and see her ? |
| 6 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 7 | The pilot study helped identify specific areas that restricted my practice and therefore limited my effectiveness |
| 8 | ‘ I ai n't frightened my horses will run away : it 's yours I 'll have to look after . ’ |
| 9 | I usually manage to curb my anger when I 'm at home , but at work I often do n't succeed . |
| 10 | ‘ Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , ‘ you will write out five hundred times , in perfect handwriting , ‘ I must learn to curb my imagination and to — ’ good gracious , girl ! |
| 11 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 12 | Right I 'll read you this piece and you 'll have to forgive my facsimile of a Herts. accent . |
| 13 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 14 | I wear contact lenses and find that eye make-up , particularly mascara , irritates my eyes . |
| 15 | And while I can understand certain people saying that yes , smoking irritates my eyes , my nose , and yes , they 're quite right they are entitled to breathe erm u u unsolid air , if yo if you want to put it that |
| 16 | Suffice to say , I was in street clothing at the time , looking , I 'd thought , the right if not the accurate side of forty , and Linal Haft , who plays my son , is three years older than I am . |
| 17 | I grab a dress and tear my way into it . |
| 18 | Shall I take a knife and tear my mother 's breast ? |
| 19 | So he can actually look at and say oh well Queen Mary 's is the place for you to go my friend . |
| 20 | delivered daily do n't you I 'm going to have to go my lunch is on the table . |
| 21 | The third frame begins to go my way . |
| 22 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 23 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 24 | When I 'm put beneath the ground , every penny I own … every piece of property , every square inch of land , every stick of furniture and even the clothes on my back … it 's all to go my son . |
| 25 | Despite the decision of the president of the CSIC to readmit my candidacy , the jury , in June 1992 , refused to examine me once again . |
| 26 | " I 'm Martin , " I said at once I hate my name . |
| 27 | For sure , ‘ Hate My Way ’ is excellent , a whiplashed stab of emotions throughout which one can shiver along to the demons cartwheeling through Kristin 's mind . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , nowadays I hate my breasts , and wish I did n't have them at all . |
| 29 | ‘ I hate my hair . ’ |
| 30 | Cos you never , I hate my hair when it 's first permed |