Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 2 | I was to have broken my leg attempting to get from bed to the top of the stars . |
| 3 | One just finished was already with my publisher waiting to go into print . |
| 4 | I spent a childhood afraid to fall ill , because being ill meant my mother had to stay off work , and lose money . |
| 5 | My mother claimed to disapprove of gossip . |
| 6 | And her heart seemed to quicken in response . |
| 7 | And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness . |
| 8 | Every tiny hair follicle on her skin seemed to prickle into overdrive . |
| 9 | Her mouth opened to scream for help , but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth . |
| 10 | I thought that this charity would appeal particularly to parents who have seen the effect it can have on family life when their child has to stay in hospital . |
| 11 | Naturalists shower us with intriguing accounts , both anecdotal and experimental , and their range tends to put in perspective the sense , if any , in which we might wish to claim that some were consciously purposive and others not . |
| 12 | An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer . |
| 13 | Her body seemed to leap into overdrive . |
| 14 | As her body began to shake with mirth , Ludovico raised himself up in dismay and cried , ‘ What do I do wrong ? |
| 15 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 16 | Her voice seemed to fray with foreboding ; it was as if , Ruth thought , Gran had forbidden herself to speak . |
| 17 | Her spine was so tense , her shoulders so rigid , that she ached all over and that empty and gnawing pain in her stomach seemed to increase in severity as dusk approached and the hour when son and husband would return grew closer . |
| 18 | Its position seems to vary from case to case . |
| 19 | Her face seems to glow with happiness as if a vision has of a sudden become reality . |
| 20 | His heart began to thump with apprehension as he brought the bike to a halt outside the drive gates to the big house . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much his Department plans to spend on science in 1992-93 . |
| 22 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 23 | His body starts to shake with laughter . |
| 24 | The goalkeeper brought down John Hendrie as the winger moved to his right to prepare to shoot for goal after pouncing on a back pass . |
| 25 | The sound of his name seemed to work like magic . |
| 26 | 12 ) he will in making his claim have to bring into account any money already received — whether as a deposit or merely as a part payment . |
| 27 | ‘ Has anyone … ’ his voice seemed to emerge with difficulty and he cleared his throat , began again , ‘ Has anyone ever told you that you look very much like the women in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And we are at the Albergo di Risorgimento , ’ said Father Branche , his voice seeming to rise in triumph at the noble word . |
| 29 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 30 | Times are hard for Alan Soden and his family — he ca n't get a job and his family have to live on state benifits . |