Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And an awful performance by my boy looking like a Black and White Minstrel ! ’ |
| 2 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 3 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 4 | I was head and shoulders taller than she , my head knocking against the low rafters . |
| 5 | The notary gave Broussac a vigorous shove which sent my companion sprawling into the open sewer . |
| 6 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 7 | It sent my self-confidence plunging to an all-time low . |
| 8 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 9 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 10 | Ahead I could see the rest of my party plodding towards the final slope that leads to the west ( main ) summit . |
| 11 | spend my time doing over the past few years . |
| 12 | This allows a court to adjust its decision according to the other party involved . |
| 13 | bluntly , its skin fraying on the sharp stones ; |
| 14 | This means that derivational arguments stand or fall by their plausibility according to the effective use of evidence ; advance in theory . |
| 15 | Flinging herself round and seeing at least three inches of her hair lying on the wooden floor , she yelled , ‘ How dare you ! |
| 16 | ‘ Bella , bella ! ’ he called to her , when he saw her leaning precariously out , her hair flowing like a red waterfall over her shoulders . |
| 17 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 18 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |
| 19 | Paige could feel her heart beating like a trapped bird in her chest and her senses reeled . |
| 20 | She could feel her heart banging like an old engine . |
| 21 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 22 | She would blush furiously , her pale complexion flooding red so that he actually imagined her blood flowing in a hot tide to the surface of her flesh ; a thought he found exciting . |
| 23 | ‘ Somebody is doing that ? ’ she queried innocently , her mind darting to the perfumed letter he had received . |
| 24 | All the way home she found her mind turning to the red roses , and the person whose birthday it was . |
| 25 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |
| 26 | Her companion did the same , but the Sheikha in her usual way lifted her veil and with a graceful inward movement of her wrist held the pot under her arm , first one side then the other , her neck arching above the rising smoke . |
| 27 | It began to chug away , her underwear rotating past the little window in the door . |
| 28 | That in itself would win the support of a substantial group of Vietnamese fence sitters , and would unite all Vietnamese in solid opposition to Ho Chi Minh ; and the Chinese communists , practical people , when they saw their aid resulting in no real accomplishment , would be less ready to see it frittered away . |
| 29 | Again , you should fix the pieces very firmly to their card backing with a rubber solution adhesive , to stop them moving about or even falling off . |
| 30 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |