Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 combing my hair out in a darkened room
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 Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door .
7 Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu .
8 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 .
9 I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying …
10 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 .
11 If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days .
12 But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience .
13 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 .
14 If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person .
15 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 .
16 I put my glass down on the nearest table and made my way out of the room .
17 I picked my book out of the sweet cicely still unread and made my way back to Claro .
18 The grammar turned the whole of my stomach over like a huge unwieldy omelette .
19 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 .
20 Soon after my mother died Fat Vince took my dad out in a famous fight , by the gents " in the alley when the Shakespeare was young .
21 I would no longer take sides with any party … which is my position up to the present day ’ .
22 ‘ Think I 'll make my way over to the big house and see how things are going . ’
23 It was an easy matter to buy my way on to the same flight .
24 I felt better now and decided to lie my way out of a tricky situation .
25 The boredom , the sheer yuk of it swept over me as I pushed my way out of the sick smell of the phone box .
26 I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance .
27 On the train , I had been unable to imagine Flaubert ( howling like an impatient dog ? grumbling ? ardent ? ) making the same journey ; now at this point of pilgrimage , the gateposts were no help in thinking my way back to the hot reunions of Gustave and Louise .
28 I yawned my way back to the Narrow Neck .
29 ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck .
30 ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in .
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