Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At point B workers have been pushed off their labour supply function but employers remain on their labour demand function , albeit at a different point . |
| 2 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 3 | She could hear his heart thudding under her ear , feel his warmth pressed against her , making her giddy . |
| 4 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she laughed , her heart thudding at his compliments . |
| 5 | Perhaps , thought Juliet , her heart thudding against her ribs , perhaps if he helps me he thinks he might fall in love with me too . |
| 6 | She could feel her heart thudding against his chest . |
| 7 | He seemed to be coming to a decision to tell her something , and she waited with her heart thudding in her chest . |
| 8 | And she went , her heart thudding in her chest with slow , painful beats and her mind a confused whirl . |
| 9 | Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest . |
| 10 | Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all . |
| 11 | She could hear her heart crashing in her ears . |
| 12 | Either way , this black man , his ringleted hair gleaming on his shoulders , was not Gentle . |
| 13 | Lotta cooking in the fabulous kitchen ; Lotta relaxed on the teak and leather couch of the living-room enjoying the vista of the sea beyond the great beeches ; Lotta naked in the elegant bathroom , laughing beneath the shower , beckoning her handsome blond lover to join her ; Lotta sprawled on the black and white striped duvet cover of the large double bed , her shining gold cap of hair gleaming against its darkness , her body a pearly invitation … |
| 14 | Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips . |
| 15 | There stood Balboa , his shield on his arm , his cuirass gleaming on his chest , the brilliant new banner in one hand and his naked sword in the other , his plumed helmet giving him a stature far more considerable than offered by his height alone . |
| 16 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
| 17 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 18 | Paging from Vodapage gives busy people like you the freedom to go about your business and get the message . |
| 19 | But the robots carry more formal titles painted on their sides , like ABB or Kawasaki . |
| 20 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
| 21 | A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end . |
| 22 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 23 | I also ask you to monitor an any unilateral decision made by your employers and document any changes . |
| 24 | Jenny was in her dressing-gown , her blonde hair tumbled about her face , which was bereft of make-up , the eyes puffy from weeping . |
| 25 | The French several times reneged on their pledges of future autonomy for the Lebanese . |
| 26 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 27 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 28 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 29 | ‘ So it 's down to a combination of continued good Presbyterian attitudes to housekeeping and our taking advantage of the recession to continue with our policy of expansion and growth . ’ |
| 30 | To fix the burns you have skin stripped off your thigh , then put over all your wounds as a natural plaster and left there for ten days . |