Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 2 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 3 | and my fingers broke with the speed |
| 4 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 5 | My breasts were developing fast and I was ashamed to see that my nipples showed through the material . |
| 6 | My eyes went to the desk . |
| 7 | My eyes fell on the bed and to my horror something began slowly to stir under the blanket . |
| 8 | The tables and the chairs , the cups and the spoons , the stains on the wall , the dust on the floor , the ache in my mind — all these things and everything else in sight mercifully receded for whole minutes at a time as my eyes took in the picture of that girl with the black hair , the pale face and the red boots . |
| 9 | I 'd no idea how I was going to deal with this until my eyes settled on the grate . |
| 10 | My eyes flitted around the table . |
| 11 | At night I slept in the big kitchen on the brown leatherette bed settee , and my parents slept in the box room . |
| 12 | My expectations rose with the quality of my life . |
| 13 | Some of my friends went to the City They 're better paid — but spare your pity ; There 's more to life than pounds and pence — My quality of life 's immense : A cosy office , nearly new , Equipped with latest PS2 . |
| 14 | I was saying to myself where 's it gone , where 's it gone , and praying to God , praying to God , and my thoughts went to the family for a few minutes . |
| 15 | My companions complained of the lack of hands-on , push-button displays , a prerequisite for the young these days , but they enjoyed the state banquet and the rooms , and were sure the show would be a great success with tourists . |
| 16 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 17 | Its chains slithered across the stone floor again , and there was a breathspace when Grainne thought it cowered . |
| 18 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 19 | That night , the glow of her lanterns shimmered on the water like dancing jewels : they seemed to beckon to Sara in a strange , seductive way . |
| 20 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 21 | Surprise kept her silent for a moment while her fingers tightened on the receiver . |
| 22 | Her fingers danced over the keyboard , uncertain at first , then more sure . |
| 23 | His hair was thick and warm , and her fingers revelled in the feel of it , creeping around the back of his skull where she half-heartedly tugged to bring his head back so that she no longer ached for his kisses to continue . |
| 24 | She grunted as her fingers scrabbled with the cellophane wrapping . |
| 25 | Her teeth chattered against the cup . |
| 26 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 27 | Her teeth sank into the hand at her mouth and the man yelped , staggering away . |
| 28 | Few stories about their activities went beyond the editing-down of a long speech — except , perhaps , to relate that the occasion was attended by ‘ leading party and Government officials ’ . |
| 29 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 30 | Ask Americans today who are only now coming to terms with the gross exploitation of native Indians and natural resources , which their forefathers accomplished in the name of ‘ progress ’ . |