Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 2 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
| 3 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 4 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 5 | If I shift in my harness and lean nervously backwards I can see my partner creeping nearer on a wall of loosely compacted rubble , brushing and blowing the sand from the holds as he swings upwards . |
| 6 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 7 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 8 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 9 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 10 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 11 | Isobel looked up and laughed herself , her nose wrinkling up like a child 's . |
| 12 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 13 | And it was new seeing her mother leaning back with a drink and a cigarette , looking years younger than her age ; and she herself felt different , older , suddenly , if older was the word she wanted . |
| 14 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 15 | At one end world superstars wrestling their megabucks motors round unnavigable corners at speeds to make your hair curl and , at the other end , Herr Kahlfuss and his chum tootling along on a nod and a wink . |
| 16 | On present form , ’ he said , his voice warming wearily into a semblance of the voice she knew best , ‘ she only pulls people out . ’ |
| 17 | Bill the dog , happy as ever to be out and about , was sniffing everything in sight , his tail whirling round in a completely circular motion like a helicopter rotor ; Eddie , however , having no tail to wag , was simply smiling , something he 's very good at . |
| 18 | John Piggott atoned for these scenes with a cool chip around the trunk of a mighty tree behind the 16th , his son holing out for a match-winning four when a six had threatened to open the door to the Betts . |
| 19 | Her anguish must have penetrated his obvious antagonism as , standing back , he gazed down at her , the prepossessing lines of his face softening slightly as a reluctant smile lifted the corners of his mouth . |
| 20 | Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends , his collar stud gleaming , and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank . |
| 21 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |