Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 2 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 3 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 4 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 5 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 6 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 7 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 8 | The central characters are emphasised by pushing them into the foreground with bold biting or by establishing them appropriately within an off-beat compositional design . |
| 9 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 10 | And opened them sharply at an insistent , warning buzz from her duty station . |
| 11 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 12 | He shook her off with an irritable gesture and turned to the gendarme . |
| 13 | Watkins engineering , at Sling , had a novel way of getting rid of industrial toxic waste — tip it away down an old mine shaft . |
| 14 | THE Scottish National Party yesterday foreshadowed its campaign for next year 's European elections , in an effort to raise Scots ' confidence in going it alone as an independent nation . |
| 15 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 16 | ( Laughter ) I mean , we accept it now as an everyday thing . |
| 17 | ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States . |
| 18 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 19 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 20 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 21 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 22 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 23 | To have tried to help Jacqui in the matter of the photographs was illogical , but at least generous , getting her out of an awkward situation . |
| 24 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 25 | Spell it out with an alphabetically-adaptable A-Z non-stick ‘ Educated Cake pan ’ , about £22.95 ; from . |
| 26 | Sow it now in an open , sunny position . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 28 | That wave will send gradual ripples through the market — but it will not be a tidal wave — to float house-owners carelessly upwards before tipping them over into an angry sea of debt . |
| 29 | She found that tears were trickling from her eyes , and dashed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 30 | The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand . |