Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 2 | But I was to discover another facet of Soviet hospital life when , after the last meal of the day at six o'clock , I became aware of a plaintive female voice outside my window . |
| 3 | My glance fell upon a stricken shrub and I became aware of a terrible aloneness in that sullen and deserted place . |
| 4 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 5 | Gradually , as the breeze moved and eddied , I became conscious of a strange , soft sound that was filling the air . |
| 6 | Do you know I lay awake for a little while last night and came to the conclusion that I had no grounds for thinking him old or frumpy ? |
| 7 | Before making more coffee I stand silent for a full minute , to be sure there 's nothing out there I should have heard . |
| 8 | A wobbling of the stepping stone , a panicky leap — and I landed sprawling on a soft , spongy blanket of sphagnum moss : to find the fingers of my right hand touching a small plant — which I instantly recognised as the common sundew . |
| 9 | I jolt awake with a bad taste in my mouth and my left eyelid stuck down again . |
| 10 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |
| 11 | In the motorway restaurant , I chose a bland meal I thought suitable for a little girl , and had a chicken salad myself . |
| 12 | Everything in me shoots high like a hot spring , like the fourth of July when my fingers meet your flowing cunt , my face twisted in an agony of pleasure . |
| 13 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 14 | She became involved with a married man , who eventually ended the affair — but ten years later , Jessica was still convinced that , one day , he would realise that he loved her , arrive at her door with a ring and they would live happily ever after . |
| 15 | The thin cotton of their clothes could not hide their bodies ' warmth from each other , and she became aware of a curious lassitude that seemed intent on relaxing her tense muscles . |
| 16 | As she came within earshot of the group , she became aware of a huge suppressed excitement permeating their ranks . |
| 17 | Then she became conscious of a vast blood-red sun warming the pampas . |
| 18 | People make you feel small with a bored look . |
| 19 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 20 | She does look well though , do n't she look lovely with a big glossy coat ? |
| 21 | How do you cure damp in a solid floor ? |
| 22 | Once you feel comfortable in a particular pair it can be a wrenching , if not expensive , experience to give them up when the inevitable signs of wear begin to show . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , she looked splendid in a true branch-line environment . |
| 24 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 25 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 26 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 27 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 28 | She liked the title ; she felt grand in a grand house . |
| 29 | Rachel was taken to her home in Mossley Hill by friends after saying she felt ill at a 21st birthday party in Wavertree . |
| 30 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |