Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 2 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 3 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 5 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 6 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 7 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 8 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 9 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 10 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 11 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 12 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 14 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 15 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 16 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 17 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 18 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 19 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 20 | I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver . |
| 21 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 22 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 23 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 24 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 25 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 26 | Well where would you , mind you I suppose like in the olden days you could only get big prams , they just had them in the living room did n't they ? |
| 27 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 28 | ‘ Mind you , there does n't seem to have been a moment 's peace since I started out in the Irish News away back in 1929 . |
| 29 | With heavy heart , fearing the worst , I felt round in the cold nest . |
| 30 | I meant not in the same way . |