Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sudden fury Leonora caught hold of his legs and swung them to the floor . |
| 2 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 3 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 4 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 5 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 6 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 7 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 8 | Apparently , they consider that their responsibilities end when they have unpacked their baggage of trophies from the record offices and arranged them in a convincing pattern . |
| 9 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 10 | Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . |
| 11 | Having said that , he self-consciously dropped his gaze from her disappointed eyes and turned it to the multi-patterned carpet . |
| 12 | She wiped the filth out of her eyes and pulled herself into the wreckage of the cockpit . |
| 13 | The day was Thursday , the start of the academic week ; Flavia combed her hair , washed her eyes and marched herself to the tower . |
| 14 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 15 | The devil-man opened his eyes and shielded them against the brightness of the sky . |
| 16 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 17 | Taczek took off his spectacles and polished them with a handkerchief . |
| 18 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 19 | In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer . |
| 20 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 21 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 22 | The positive approach of Comte was developed by Emile Durkheim who adopted Comte 's empirical and rationalist methods and fashioned them into an approach which provides a major foundation for the study of sociology today . |
| 23 | Jelinek trained his system on a corpus of 1,500,000 words and tested it on a test corpus of 300,000 . |
| 24 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 25 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 26 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 27 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 28 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 29 | She laid her hands on Peter 's shoulders and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 30 | Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down . |