Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
| 2 | Lannaman 's exaltedness stood out against the bleak , colourless squalor of working-class Aston , cluttered with roads of derelict , condemned or should-be-condemned houses . |
| 3 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
| 4 | YORK Minster 's bells rang out over the city for the first time in six months at the weekend their longest break since the Second World War . |
| 5 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 6 | Philip 's Mum came out of the house . |
| 7 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 8 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 9 | Mett 's luck ran out in the final . |
| 10 | The path from Billy 's cottage wound down towards the river bank . |
| 11 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 12 | Jahsaxa , kneeling on Zambia 's hair spread out on the floor , roughly put her taloned fingers in hir silently screaming mouth , and jerked hir head backwards . |
| 13 | Gabriel 's heart went out to the playmaster . |
| 14 | Forster 's breathing whistled out of the one-way valve . |
| 15 | The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners . |
| 16 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 17 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 18 | Theodora 's mind flashed back to the tall washed-out figure of Mrs Gray and her sudden passionate support of her husband 's good intentions . |
| 19 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 20 | Then the feeling faded as the sun 's light shifted round through the billowing walls of the tent . |
| 21 | Lee 's stepdad strode out of the garage . |
| 22 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 23 | The window of Ramsey 's study looked out to the west end of the cathedral . |
| 24 | Although a Private Members Bill , it had been included in the Government 's programme set out in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 25 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 26 | Kebbel 's eyes drifted over to the window . |
| 27 | Ashley 's eyes drifted down from the screen and she frowned . |
| 28 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 29 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 30 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |