Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 2 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 3 | But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time , and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident . |
| 4 | My father never went to bed without supper , no matter what happened . |
| 5 | My father never bothered with things like that , he looks a page three or the back ones , sport or sex , not politics . |
| 6 | My dad never talked about appearance much , only to make a clinical/medical-type comment . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother never talked about money , you see . ’ |
| 8 | My mother fortunately wrote to Eliot on 20 August 1940 , and he answered : |
| 9 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 10 | She struggled , kicking out hopelessly , and her heart almost burst with panic . |
| 11 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 12 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 13 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 14 | Successful cultures needed room to expand , because their success usually led to population growth which eventually was too great for the local environment to sustain . |
| 15 | As the absent soldiers who had overstayed their leave mostly came from Ireland , he felt it was n't his fault . |
| 16 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
| 17 | He was received by old Mrs Ferrar and Nicholas , to whom he spoke frankly of how he had heard of ‘ their watching and praying at night , of their altar richly decked with plate , tapestry and tapers , of their adoration and genuflections on entering therein , which might savour of superstition and popery ’ . |
| 18 | They all face the same problem : their strength traditionally lay in parish life , traditional communities , and what the sociologists call ‘ cultural embeddedness ’ . |
| 19 | The maid looked over her shoulder then hissed into Christina 's ear , ‘ Black magic power . ’ |
| 20 | Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 22 | The Archimandrite continued to smile , and his mood still appeared to Miss Logan a gracious one . |
| 23 | The pension from his post also went to Jean , who was then living at home on the rue de Harlay and no doubt working with Martin in the instrument business ( document 5 ) . |
| 24 | His focus soon shifted to subjects he became famous for portraying : the nouveaux riches at play in 1920 's Berlin . |
| 25 | One winter night , as the mutt twitched away in front of the fire , his mind somewhere between Basingstoke and the twilight zone , a 100-watt light bulb in the standard lamp above his head suddenly exploded without warning ! |
| 26 | I admired the way in which the leading Death gestured gallantly towards an open grave , his head bizarrely decked with flags . |
| 27 | Gaston de Rochefort was panting , his forehead heavily beaded with sweat when he reached her . |
| 28 | In July 1773 , following the three highly successful Italian visits , Mozart and his father again travelled to Vienna . |
| 29 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 30 | His army eventually arrived in Bordeaux , but it achieved little , and Gaunt lost almost half his men as they marched over the Massif Central in winter . |