Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] in [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 3 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 4 | Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall . |
| 5 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 6 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 7 | He dropped to his knees and tried to scramble away but Julie hit him again , kicking him hard in the ribs as he fell to the ground . |
| 8 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 9 | However the board went and sold Batts : - I do n't know much about Tinkler is he more in the Batts or Strach mould ? |
| 10 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |