Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With difficulty I raised my gaze to her face , staring dazedly at the soft abundance of her mouth , the petal-perfect skin , the powerful femaleness that radiated from her eyes . |
| 2 | As we march up the grass towards the motel building I put my arm around Laverne , who knows he 's in for it . |
| 3 | Because of course I have my voice in here with me , as well as my hands . |
| 4 | I appreciate that your vanity was stirred by this invitation , and of course I understand your regret at having to decline it , but frankly I think your friend is a little jejune . |
| 5 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 6 | In the Airds ' duplex apartment I hung my raincoat over Tessa 's second mink with a malign hope that it would drip , which involved me in turning in my tracks after a minute or two to take the gesture back . |
| 7 | ‘ The horse I put my money on fell over in the mud , you see . |
| 8 | In her bedroom she buried her face in the pillow while numerous sobs escaped her , shaking her slim body uncontrollably . |
| 9 | She was aware of the colour touching her cheeks and in confusion she tore her gaze from his , picked up her glass , took a mouthful of orange juice and stared with furious intent into the depths of her glass . |
| 10 | In Stevie 's study she shook her head over the desk with its shattered lock . |
| 11 | I could scarcely bear to watch the mental torture you put my daughter through that evening . |
| 12 | She has never been to the Caribbean in her life , but most of her friends are black British : to their companionship she owes her aptitude for talking Creole . |
| 13 | In the shower-room she rinsed her face with cold water . |
| 14 | Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty . |
| 15 | With a deep moan of pleasure she guided his head to her breasts , arching back as she felt his mouth wetly caressing them . |
| 16 | But by harnessing this useful emotion we restrict their sinning to the erotic sphere , and produce a countervailing integrity in their governing . |
| 17 | But may I politely suggest that in future they beat their meat in the privacy of their own studio instead of soiling our evening with such toss ? |
| 18 | Cheese and onion little pasties they made and Laura did n't want to eat any for tea they did their nut with her |
| 19 | We can only speculate on Wordsworth 's political beliefs before 1792 — in The Prelude he attributes his awakening to a French soldier , Beaupuy — ( see below ) . |
| 20 | Shortly after his defeat he announced his retirement from politics . |
| 21 | His half-smile was rueful as with deliberate intention he smoothed his palm over her taut nipples , starting a wild drumming somewhere inside her . |
| 22 | During the Great War Daniels had proposed that the Headmaster should retire on his sixtieth birthday ( and his assistants on their 50th ! ) , and with this in mind he tendered his resignation in July 1928 : he would be sixty in December . |
| 23 | With College authorities he reached an unofficial arrangement whereby for a term he gave his salary to Francis Bacon whom he had asked to fill his place . |
| 24 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 25 | He threw his briefcase onto the floor , into the corner , and with all his force he slammed his door behind him . |
| 26 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |
| 27 | Well , if I erm said to one of my students something about that was a very good essay you wrote , in fact I 'd like to discuss it a little bit more down at the pub and down at the pub I put my hand on his knee perhaps in making a point about how good his essay was . |
| 28 | On reflection I regret my use in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 22 , of the keyholder analogy because keys can lock as well as unlock . |
| 29 | What a pity I lost my hat on the way here ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |