Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 2 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 3 | And like a well-trained dog I stuck an arm in the air and said , ‘ I 'm putting my foot down for the Telethon , how about you ? ’ |
| 4 | I had n't slammed my foot down on the brake . |
| 5 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 6 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 7 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 8 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 9 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 10 | I daresay you were right , I should n't have brushed my teeth out of the tap . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was running just 20 miles a week in my build up for the race . |
| 12 | I dumped the carrier with my groceries down beside the road , and set off across the moor . |
| 13 | I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’ |
| 14 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 15 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be the first to pull my kids out of the school if this curriculum is introduced , ’ says Anna Saez , parent association head of the Elmhurst public school . |
| 17 | And I can move my car round into the garage ? |
| 18 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 19 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 20 | If one goes to the slightly higher figure , which would be more appropriate for inner suburban development , then instead of my cut out for the Land Ranger map , for one and a half square kilometres , one hundred and fifty hectares , one can take the new ten penny piece . |
| 21 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 22 | I was thinking , oh yeah I 'll just chop my legs off at the knee shall I ? |
| 23 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 24 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 26 | I drew my feet out of the water . |
| 27 | I thought of nothing other than dragging my feet out of the mud encasing them . |
| 28 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 29 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 30 | When I ran my spear in for the kill . ’ |