Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 2 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 3 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 5 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 6 | Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu . |
| 7 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 8 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 9 | I put my head out of the rear door of the dining car and , looking forward , saw all the passengers climbing upwards into the sleeping cars , with porters following after with their bags . |
| 10 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 11 | If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person . |
| 12 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 13 | I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room . |
| 14 | I picked my book out of the sweet cicely still unread and made my way back to Claro . |
| 15 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 16 | I would no longer take sides with any party … which is my position up to the present day ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Think I 'll make my way over to the big house and see how things are going . ’ |
| 18 | It was an easy matter to buy my way on to the same flight . |
| 19 | The boredom , the sheer yuk of it swept over me as I pushed my way out of the sick smell of the phone box . |
| 20 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 21 | On the train , I had been unable to imagine Flaubert ( howling like an impatient dog ? grumbling ? ardent ? ) making the same journey ; now at this point of pilgrimage , the gateposts were no help in thinking my way back to the hot reunions of Gustave and Louise . |
| 22 | I yawned my way back to the Narrow Neck . |
| 23 | ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 25 | Now I have another week to get my fitness up to the right level . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm leaving a picture of my mother up at the front door with a notice saying this woman is not allowed into the theatre , ’ says Margi . |
| 27 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 28 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 29 | ‘ His name is Matthew Blake , ’ Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge . |
| 30 | Cold swimmers demanded their money back at the new Ponteland Leisure Centre after claiming the water was too cold . |