Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ensuing panic zebras run in all directions , many of them right into the paws and jaws of another waiting lioness . |
| 2 | With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP . |
| 3 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 4 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 5 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 6 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 7 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 8 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 9 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 10 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 11 | They make them longer during the evenings and Saturday . |
| 12 | He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward . |
| 13 | There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it did lose me momentarily after the Mohicans and Munro daughters escape the scene of the Huron massacre . |
| 15 | Even in the Elizabethan and Stuart era rural communities in certain regions such as the West Riding of Yorkshire or the West Midlands had an industrial character that marked them off from the societies that have so far been described . |
| 16 | I 'll fill you in on the details before I leave . |
| 17 | I should hand you over to the Tech-Greens if I had any sense ! ’ |
| 18 | Mind you more for the governors but hard luck . |
| 19 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 20 | I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’ |
| 21 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 22 | Nothing to report to you now on the buses or the trains . |
| 23 | ( He could surprise you sometimes with the bits and pieces of his knowledge . ) |
| 24 | Stare me straight in the teeth And I 'm sure you 'll agree I 've got a high class pedigree I do n't gie' a monkey 's for the world and its wife It 's a dog 's life ! |
| 25 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 26 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 27 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 28 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 29 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 30 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |