Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart was doing its usual bass drum act as we drew in . |
| 2 | My job was to clear it all up so Dolph would n't mess up his trainers . ’ |
| 3 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 4 | My hand was teasing her juicy shoulders and succulent breasts thrust out from a dirty , though very low-cut bodice . |
| 5 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 6 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 7 | His low chuckle and the touch of his finger tips drifting lightly over her curves were making it difficult for her to concentrate . |
| 8 | Their ambitions were to own their own homes and have private pensions . |
| 9 | Just as her name was spoken her white head bobbed into view . |
| 10 | Because they were walking downhill her limp was making her awkward and she linked arms with him to keep her balance . |
| 11 | Dinah and her father were discussing his forthcoming production of Macbeth over supper . |
| 12 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
| 13 | Doc Threadneedle had fixed her body up so she healed quick , and the stinging meant that the micro-organisms he had fed into her flesh were doing their good work . |
| 14 | And as it was her first run , a chip inserted into the bluetower in her skull was recording her own performance . |
| 15 | Her hand was caressing her own breast now , probing with such delicacy , feeling the hard resistance , the anger of her lover . |
| 16 | Even her hands were touching something pleasant — silky , soft ; she moved her fingers luxuriously , then slowly consciousness returned . |
| 17 | All her instincts were telling her this was going to be a fabulous evening . |
| 18 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 19 | Below , in the shop , Sushi was working normally , unaware of the finality with which her partner was planning her last few hours in England . |
| 20 | She stared meaningfully at the place where his fingers were circling her upper arm , and he made a wry face and released her . |
| 21 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 22 | His response was to renew his ministerial team . |
| 23 | ‘ Once , we made a recording of John and hid it behind the radio while his mum was making us some tea , ’ he chuckled . |
| 24 | Although Cézanne 's painting was profoundly original , his ambition was to use his own intensive study of nature to revivify classical or traditional painting ; the means he used , although they were highly personal , were founded on the optical discoveries of the Impressionists . |
| 25 | He told me his plan was to murder his hated guest that night , with the weapon he had shown me . |
| 26 | His plan was to pre-empt my own and it is true that he was first to publish some of his proposals . |
| 27 | The duration of his restoration was deemed his 49th regnal year — in other words , the reign of Edward was ignored . |
| 28 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 29 | His instinct was to draw her closer to him . |
| 30 | With the emerging pattern of village colleges , his LEA was providing its own programmes of liberal adult education and at the April 1939 meeting of the RAC he was successful in adding a clause to the constitution of the Committee to enable other ‘ approved associations ’ to provide courses of the Chapter III variety in addition to the WEA . |