Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 2 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 3 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 4 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 5 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 6 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 7 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 8 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 9 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 10 | Once I dressed up in a big , black shag wig , really tacky . |
| 11 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 12 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 13 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 14 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 15 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 16 | You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment . |
| 17 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 18 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 19 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 20 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 21 | Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat . |
| 22 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 23 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 24 | ‘ If you go round saying that they 'll have you locked up in a padded cell . ’ |
| 25 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 26 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 27 | She pulled up in a fair-sized stableyard attached to a farm which appeared to be miles from anywhere . |
| 28 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 29 | She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart . |
| 30 | Still shaking somewhat with fright , Millie swallowed twice before she brought out in a small voice , ‘ It 's very nice , thank you . ’ |