Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 2 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 3 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 4 | The magazine Fair Lady carries an advertisement in which a white woman addresses the reader : ‘ I discuss family planning with my domestic and take her to the nearest clinic . |
| 5 | I used to roll them in my hand and get them warm and get them in my finger like that and shoot it down , and watch it go down er |
| 6 | ‘ Whatever is it ? ’ shrieked the old lady , shaking her loose and holding her at arm 's length . |
| 7 | She beat the 24-year-old woman , stripped her naked and tied her to the balcony . |
| 8 | When in trouble he could , like a god , make himself invisible or turn himself into an animal . |
| 9 | Yanto could see she was sold on the idea Then he pulled her close and kissed her on the lips . |
| 10 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 11 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 12 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I know you 'll treat 'er proper an' get 'er on 'er feet again , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ you ai n't one for 'anky-panky , that you ai n't . |
| 14 | Clean the gunge that is probably beneath these brushes , rub everything clean and return them in the right order . |
| 15 | ‘ I say we should find something sharp and stick it into it , ’ said a nome . |
| 16 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 17 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 18 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 19 | ‘ The good men of the realm , great and small , rich and poor , by common assent ’ found him guilty and sentenced him to death . |
| 20 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 21 | That was my understanding and I got it right and discussed it with him |
| 22 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 23 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 24 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |
| 25 | Maxim offered the sealed envelope , Bruno took it , broke it open and passed it to her . |
| 26 | Cut it down , dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance ? |
| 27 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
| 28 | Christianity got me young and inculcated me with fear of devils , and with guilt , and with a notion that God spied on me always , and that I was a worthless shit because Jesus had been killed . |
| 29 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |