Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the tail rotors that do the damage — and I 'd hate to spend my afternoon scraping you off the roof . ’ |
| 2 | And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 4 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 5 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 6 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |
| 7 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 8 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 9 | Her arms twined around his neck , her body pressing against him , her lips receiving his with a passion that scorched her . |
| 10 | She laughed caustically , her eyes meeting his in the mirror of the pool , challenging him . |
| 11 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 12 | It had ended when he knocked her to the ground and slammed out of the room , hearing her laughter following him down the corridor . |
| 13 | He deliberately kept the Lamonts in a separate compartment , their home providing him with a place to refuel in company he enjoyed and in countryside he loved . |
| 14 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 15 | She looked up , clutching her inadequate plush tablecloths , the supple line of her body begging him for a ride . |
| 16 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 17 | She remembered her friend saying something on the phone : ‘ It gets a bit rough ’ … something like that . |
| 18 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 19 | At a little after one she informed him that she was ready to leave , her expression leaving him in no doubt that any objections on his part would be swiftly killed . |
| 20 | Two squads of Fists in full battle armour crowded the fore of the compartment , standing rigidly , gripping their boltguns and chainswords , the magnetics of their boots locking them to the cleated deck . |
| 21 | His grip tightened , his fingers burying themselves in the knot of hair at her nape . |
| 22 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 23 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 24 | His eyes holding hers in an almost hypnotic stare , he asked softly , ‘ What 's so terrible about a kiss ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This is madness , ’ he groaned and brought his head down , his lips taking hers in a kiss that brooked no opposition . |
| 26 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 27 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 28 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 29 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 30 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |