Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
| 2 | With a final effort that she felt in every nerve of her body , she jerked her hand from his and turned away to the fire . |
| 3 | Well , I must admit there 's a bit of me that thrives slightly on the exam syndrome — something that gets the adrenalin flowing rather like ‘ first nights ’ . |
| 4 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 5 | Then I could measure the speed of the wind inside me and know where on the scale I was in general located . |
| 6 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 7 | He would n't tell me and went straight into the bathroom there and it was ages before he came out . |
| 8 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 9 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 10 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 11 | I started to run up , straight up the hill , erm lucky the monster was running straight at me and sticking out of the crowd and he tripped over and after the end |
| 12 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 13 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 14 | He pushed past me and ran out of the house . |
| 15 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
| 17 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 18 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 19 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 20 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 21 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 22 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 23 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 24 | They should be able to grasp a total situation from the fragments presented to them and respond linguistically in a way that would benefit their business . |
| 25 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 26 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
| 27 | Then he opened them and kicked savagely at a lump of dried mud , sending it sailing across the yard to explode against the side of the stable . |
| 28 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 29 | James 's eyes filled suddenly with tears , he wiped it them and looked disbelievingly at the wet on his fingers . |
| 30 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |