Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could always hear her moving around ; her stroke left her clumsy in the house she 's supposed to know . |
| 2 | Pretty , vivacious and also a Roman Catholic , she delighted in Minton 's company , partly because his homosexuality left her untroubled by the passes she received from other men . |
| 3 | He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees . |
| 4 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 5 | He lacked the courage to look her full in the face . |
| 6 | After 1787 the graveyard was no longer used and the Jewish community buried its dead in the cemetery in the Žižkov quarter . |
| 7 | He ogled her and once he had come out and asked her if she would like a dear little puppy dog to keep her warm in the night . |
| 8 | An impatient exclamation brought her aware of the man leaning against the back of the settee in a deceptively relaxed pose . |
| 9 | Her own self-confidence made her impervious to the intended snubs . |
| 10 | A schoolboy found her dead in a pool of blood on her driveway . |
| 11 | Paramedics and a medical aid team fought for an hour by the roadside to keep her alive after the accident at the junction of Scotland Road and Stanley Road . |
| 12 | Ducks and chickens from the farm brought their young into the kitchen . |
| 13 | When it fell to his lot to cut her free from the coils of the hydra , had his poignant fixation received a body-blow — or a boost ? |
| 14 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 15 | Surprise kept her silent for a moment while her fingers tightened on the receiver . |
| 16 | Luxemburg 's internationalism made her insensitive to the possibility of German Social Democratic oppression — or at least , oppression by neglect or indifference — of Prussia 's Poles . |