Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair comes out like a bird 's nest and my eyes look slitty . |
| 2 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 3 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 4 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 5 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 6 | I was anticipating severe disapproval from that quarter , because my father was bemused , to say the least , by my refusal to settle down into a job with a future , as he put it . |
| 7 | Yeah , its just er I feel you know its , its a waste of your life , you know sitting , I have to drive through the , the necessity to work every day , its an hour of my day spent just behind a wheel when I could be in the train , you know reading or doing something more productive |
| 8 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 9 | I have never had much stomach for fighting and I certainly did not relish the prospect of having my head knocked off for a few cigarettes ! |
| 10 | Anyone who could play an instrument or sing in tune was roped in , and I found my name put down on a list to be a chorus girl . |
| 11 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , my Lord , my wife took up with a hawker and man away five years ago : and I have never seen her since , so I married this other woman last winter . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My wife works hard as a working mum , and all credit to her , but do n't kid me she 's a superwoman and I 'm a gibbering idiot . |
| 14 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 15 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 16 | Of course , after I 'd cut off one bit , my temper cooled down like a hot Poker dipped in a rain barrel . |
| 17 | My voice came out like a croak — I was choking with rage . |
| 18 | My dad went off with a Rodeo Groupie , that 's what Mom says . |
| 19 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
| 20 | ‘ My contribution ended up as a very defined , but audible sound . |
| 21 | Finally I reached Maymyo , to find my family camping out in a very small house , all three children down with scarlet fever . |
| 22 | I lead a very chaotic life and spend a lot of my time running around like a maniac so that keeps me fairly fit . |
| 23 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 24 | If I shift in my harness and lean nervously backwards I can see my partner creeping nearer on a wall of loosely compacted rubble , brushing and blowing the sand from the holds as he swings upwards . |
| 25 | My mother smiled insincerely at a couple of Burberried biddies smirking from the table across the aisle ; they turned sniffily away . |
| 26 | If there are no personal letters , my identity submits meekly to a brief dual eclipse , the first at eight-thirty and the second at noon . |
| 27 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 28 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 29 | I caught a glimpse of JCBs grazing in the adjoining field like a group of hybrid giraffes ; and was that a dumper truck with its shell tipped up like a rutting tortoise ? |
| 30 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |