Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 2 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 3 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 4 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 5 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 6 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 7 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 8 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 9 | And how my heart aches for the baby son of Sarah Monelle , the young mum killed when a speeding car mounted the pavement , again in freezing fog , and ploughed into her and three of her pals . |
| 10 | Q I am getting married in the spring and am planning to have my hair permed nearer the time when it is longer . |
| 11 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 12 | I will make my views known to the world community and to UNESCO ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Did my coin land in the fountain ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 15 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 16 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 17 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 18 | ‘ But when my contract expires at the end of the season I 'll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the top clubs will be interested in signing me . |
| 19 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 20 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |
| 21 | Down below , Quigley shouted goodnight at me and I shouted back , and , at last , my mum tiptoed to the door and , looking fearfully around her in case Quigley saw , blew me a little , damp kiss . |
| 22 | My mum went to the doctor and says to the doctor . |
| 23 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 24 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
| 25 | and my fingers broke with the speed |
| 26 | I grab the butt , with my fingers curled around the reel seating , and strike . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 28 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 29 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |