Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Seawitch rolled heavily Polly 's foot slipped on the wet deck and she stumbled backwards , pulling Nathan with her . |
| 2 | Their skinhead followers are horrid but , in the French elections , the majority of 18-24 year olds voted Green , and Le Pen 's support came from an older and jobless proletariat — the 10 per cent of Europe 's have-nothings for whom no mainstream party offers more than kind words and strict membership of the European Monetary System . |
| 3 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
| 4 | Because Set 's existence ended in a brief moment of agony , as he took the full force of Angel One 's flying hip-kick on his open upper jaw . |
| 5 | Flack 's skin glistened in the white , gritty light , his thin face tight with fatigue . |
| 6 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 7 | I am dying , Egypt , dying , her mind gabbled when Dotty Blundell 's brassière fell to the dusty floor . |
| 8 | THE number of deaths last year on Britain 's roads fell to the lowest level since records began in 1926 . |
| 9 | Gorbad 's chariot came to a crashing halt , throwing the Orc Warlord at Adolphus 's feet . |
| 10 | Georgia 's parliament appealed to the United Nations on Thursday , saying : ‘ The events of recent days in Abkhazia confirm Russia is expanding the scope of its undeclared war against Georgia . ’ |
| 11 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 12 | Lisa 's heart felt like a huge fist clenched in her chest , so tight , so hard , that she could scarcely breathe . |
| 13 | Ruth 's heart plummeted to an all-time low . |
| 14 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 15 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 16 | Frankenstein 's monster stood outside the shattered door . |
| 17 | The buyer 's carrier went to the cold store with a delivery order . |
| 18 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 19 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 20 | The room started to fade , as Grant 's mind succumbed to the strong sedative the doctor had administered to him . |
| 21 | Chesarynth 's mind reeled with a sudden intuition . |
| 22 | Against such chilling prospects , Vologsky 's mind rebelled in a frenetic search for hope . |
| 23 | We seem to remember that revelations about recycling Mr Kinnock 's speeches led to an American presidential candidate withdrawing in that country 's last election . |
| 24 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 25 | Jack 's glance fell on the tiny computer screen , which seemed to be going crazy — flashing up numbers , graphics and a kind of blue fuzz , each image speeding into the next . |
| 26 | Preston 's glance took in the broad shoulders , a black beard , a lean , dark face and a big nose . |
| 27 | Müncheberg 's Staffel returned in the early evening as escorts to Italian bombers , engaging six Hurricanes over Luqa . |
| 28 | Graham 's shops coincided with an increasing number of people taking to the hills . |
| 29 | The year 's programme began with the National Monuments Record of Scotland Jubilee Exhibition and continued with ‘ The Architect and the Carpenter ’ . |
| 30 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |