Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 2 | I even got my old room back in the Goethestrasse . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 4 | I carried my empty mug out to the sink , then stood in the doorway and regarded them . |
| 5 | I put my left hand up on the trailer to jump on and that was it . |
| 6 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 7 | I sent my 14-year-old son out of the room . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’ |
| 9 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 10 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 11 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 12 | If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity . |
| 13 | An action could force their ill-fated relationship back into the courts just weeks after Mandy received a £500,000 marriage settlement . |
| 14 | Her left arm by her side , her right elbow out at an angle and her forearm shaking like a pneumatic drill . |
| 15 | My aunt asked a few questions , and ascertained that the lady 's pain was originating from her lower right abdomen — the general area of her right thigh up to the right side of her stomach . |
| 16 | She drew her right hand out from the folds of her apron and thrust a piece of paper at him , averting her eyes as she did so . |
| 17 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 18 | Rachaela took her damp hair out of the towel . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 20 | She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , ’ she mourned , and , placing her empty cup down on the table , she felt quite disappointed that , come the time for the fountain to be switched on , she would be back in England . |
| 22 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 23 | An orangery , a formal canal , a Gothick tower , one of Britain 's most fantastic grottoes , a Gothick garden house and a mock fortified bastion are all crammed into its limited acreage along with a statue of Hercules being toppled by the weight of his own club . |
| 24 | Also , although ashamed as we can see in Act 2 Scene 6 , lines 30–32 and 34–40 , her simple carrying out of the deed is immoral and dishonest . |
| 25 | The ice was beginning to melt , and she could hear the drip of water from her ice-cold slit on to the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ Elspeth ’ took her unbroken horse out into an open space . |
| 27 | Eventually , Hamburg will have a ‘ museum mile ’ stretching from its inner-city lake down to the harbour . |
| 28 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 29 | Each member of the Section had dragged their entire kit down to a patch of gravel behind the barracks and , standing in a semicircle , we had lain all our uniforms and possessions at our feet . |
| 30 | ‘ Silly girl walked off with my car-keys , ’ Leo lied , giving an acceptable excuse for her sudden dash out of the shop . |