Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 2 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 3 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 4 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 5 | yeah , I made in the West Chest , Cheshire a |
| 6 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
| 7 | I got into the driver 's seat and started the car . |
| 8 | Then I moved into the driver 's seat and we drove on . |
| 9 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 10 | Er but , Collieries as they became , they did n't acc That was Lancaster , they did n't accept er the old unions , so they erm they belonged Both I ca n't on Friday night I used to the Methodist 's chapel to pay the old union subscription , and to the West to pay 's . |
| 11 | I referred to the Government 's record on job creation . |
| 12 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |
| 13 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 14 | But instead of going there , I sneaked into the Trunchbull 's room . |
| 15 | My ear was caught by the sweet sounds of love-making : delicious ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ , interspersed with the grunts and deep groans of a voice I recognised as the king 's . |
| 16 | I came across the garden 's central pavilion quite by chance , stumbling on it as I followed a dried water-course . |
| 17 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 18 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 19 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |
| 20 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 21 | Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow . |
| 22 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 23 | So , I turned to the devil 's picking method — free-arm — and it sounds fine . |
| 24 | I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 26 | I walked into the Shakespeares ' kitchen one evening , and there was Anne , with a red , angry face , shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 27 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 28 | I walked to the water 's edge where a coconut husk trembled in the backwash of the lagoon 's tiny waves . |
| 29 | ‘ The time I spent with the O'Brien 's was a great education . |
| 30 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |