Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 2 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 3 | On the ground floor he walked a few feet ahead , leaving me to trundle behind like a meek Arab wife . |
| 4 | When they were n't trashing their equipment ( something which kept them occupied deep into the Seventies ) , they were trashing each other . |
| 5 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |
| 7 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 8 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 9 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 10 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 11 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 12 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 13 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 14 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 15 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 16 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 17 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 18 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 19 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 20 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 22 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 23 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 24 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 25 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 26 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 27 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 28 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 29 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 30 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |