Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her kiss at the cottage gate left my mind occupied during the long walk back to the farm . |
| 2 | Gustave did n't understand this , could n't see that my talent depended on the swift moment , the sudden feeling , the unexpected meeting : on life , that 's what I 'm saying . |
| 3 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 4 | My back ached , my bum was sore and my mouth caked with the rich tang of the wine . |
| 5 | [ Balliol ] pressed me much to have my name inserted in the new Commissn for the Peace , but I absolutely declined it . |
| 6 | At least I did n't get my photo taken by the zoom-lensed police photographer on the touchline ( at least I do n't think I did ) . |
| 7 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 8 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |
| 9 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 10 | As my section settled into the straw-filled barn , I dumped the rucksack , and slinging the rifle over my shoulder , went off in search of something to eat , coffee or whatever was going . |
| 11 | They did n't attack me : my arms were pinioned and I was turned round , my face pressed into the dank wall of the alleyway . |
| 12 | Mr Martin warned the jury to beware of having their judgement swayed by the unprecedented publicity that had already surrounded the case at local and national levels . |
| 13 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 14 | Many were already suffering from pellet wounds inflicted by the shotguns of Chuck 's hunters , and the last dregs of their resistance crumbled before the menacing line of armed men . |
| 15 | There she was , hair swept up as usual , mannishness accentuated by a tailored suit , her presence haloed by the only perfume she ever wore , if she wore any at all . |
| 16 | Fand lay on it , her hair spread over the dark wood . |
| 17 | Her heart dropped at the ominous statement . |
| 18 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 19 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 20 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 21 | Their income rocketed with the Big Bang demand for specialists in sales , trading , research and corporate finance . |
| 22 | For a long while she stayed there without moving , her mind filled with the dull ache of loss and of longing for what might have been . |
| 23 | She greeted their neighbours absentmindedly as she passed them in their yards , her mind occupied with the new argument against the shoes . |
| 24 | Her neck rested on the top curve of the seat and this lifted her mouth as if for kissing . |
| 25 | A horse that persists in trying to buck us off may have its self-esteem developed in the wrong way ! |
| 26 | The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home . |
| 27 | With all sense of distance blotted out by the night , their car slapped over the deserted tarmac . |
| 28 | AA patrolman Nimesh Patel went to help a woman get her car started in the damp — and fell headlong into her icy pool . |
| 29 | The women , who are twin sisters , were staying in a guest house at Wantage , their rent paid by the social services . |
| 30 | On completion of the link building , expected t take a matter of months , the external warehouse will be closed and its stock transferred to the new one . |