Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 2 | My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still . |
| 3 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 4 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I do n't like to speak my mind twice on the same subject . |
| 7 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 8 | I had to turn my concentration now onto the Fraxilly job . |
| 9 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 10 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 11 | I 've got my nerve ever since the twenty eighth of |
| 12 | Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu . |
| 13 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 14 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 15 | Somerville had my record straight in the 1959 Register , but mysteriously erroneous in 1970 ! |
| 16 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 17 | I tiptoed along the corridor and put my head gingerly round the semi-open door . |
| 18 | I put my head out of the rear door of the dining car and , looking forward , saw all the passengers climbing upwards into the sleeping cars , with porters following after with their bags . |
| 19 | ‘ But after watching the video , I was more pleased with my movement away from the terrific power of his left hook and uppercut . ’ |
| 20 | I was walking my dog right through the common and this great big black fat hairy man came along and sharpened his great big long tool into , into this cattle , the bad thing about it was the fucking cow exploded |
| 21 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 22 | My first impression was of oppressive heat , but then I have spent my life mainly on the cool side of temperate . |
| 23 | If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person . |
| 24 | I thought , if he 'd been the one arriving in my world instead of the other way around , he 'd have thought I was just as stupid ! |
| 25 | Then I get up out of the creaking seat and stretch my legs , taking my glass over to the floor-to-ceiling windows which form one wall of the ballroom and look out over the gardens to the railway line and the shore of the loch . |
| 26 | I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room . |
| 27 | I picked my book out of the sweet cicely still unread and made my way back to Claro . |
| 28 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
| 29 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 30 | I would no longer take sides with any party … which is my position up to the present day ’ . |