Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ five techniques ’ ( requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated , having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours , depriving them of sleep , subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them ) were subsequently condemned as ‘ torture ’ by the European Rights Commission ( Hewitt , 1982:157–8 ) . |
| 2 | My stomach contracted and my heart went into a somersault . |
| 3 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 4 | My heart leapt like a lift for joy . |
| 5 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 6 | my mum went to a fortune teller and , and I had there like tears running Oh ! |
| 7 | My mum went to a karaoke last night . |
| 8 | I think you 'll find , I do n't know whether it is but mum , my mum went to a car boot sale once and they were n't selling nothing over ten pounds , so the car boot sales |
| 9 | We went to Welsh Hanson first erm my mum went as a volunteer , er a voluntary helper to eight children in charge of eight children . |
| 10 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 11 | Eliot 's enquiry about my work recurred in a letter dated 17 June 1938 , sent to Wychwood , Merstham : |
| 12 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 13 | I could n't hear anything with my right ear and my eye looked like a burst , over-ripe plum . |
| 14 | ‘ My husband died in a plane crash last year , so we 've come back to live in England . ’ |
| 15 | As I told you , when my friend enquired about a job a couple of weeks ago she was told there were no vacancies at all . ’ |
| 16 | Not for the first — or last — time in my life , I wished that my name began with a W and not a B ! |
| 17 | My father went to a police station that evening after work to report the threatening telephone call and the fact that his son was being threatened with extreme violence . |
| 18 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 19 | My father died of a heart attack some years ago . |
| 20 | Yeah well , I mean we all My father died of a heart attack . |
| 21 | My father worked in a market and he got big bundles of it very cheaply . |
| 22 | My aunt had about a month to live . |
| 23 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 24 | … In fact I have on one occasion in my life dreamt of a Pan-Indonesia which will include not only Malaya and Papua [ ie. Australian New Guinea ] but also the Philippines . ’ |
| 25 | My sleep broke on a hug , |
| 26 | My frustration came to a head when I read an advert in a well known weekly which was for an attractive 1948 Series One the price of which has VAT added How can this be ? |
| 27 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 28 | I mean I 've no doubt that my health suffered as a result of the the conditions that I worked under and I think |
| 29 | Asked what was his greatest hour , he replied : ‘ When my son qualified as a solicitor . ’ |
| 30 | Er and my brother went to a boarding school but I did n't . |