Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be coming to a decision to tell her something , and she waited with her heart thudding in her chest . |
| 2 | And she went , her heart thudding in her chest with slow , painful beats and her mind a confused whirl . |
| 3 | Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest . |
| 4 | She could hear her heart crashing in her ears . |
| 5 | A sentence formed in my head . |
| 6 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 7 | He sat down on the bed , his hands in his lap , his heart thumping in his chest . |
| 8 | The CGT failed in its attempt to separate worker and student contingents . |
| 9 | Suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 10 | Instead of throwing a ball for him — a game he loved — or giving him a stick to carry in his mouth — the next best thing — Angela shrank back , as she did n't understand him and wanted to be rid of him . |
| 11 | Reckon there 's a hole in th'head where th'brains have flown out — she thought as she sneaked into the stable with her heart fluttering in her throat . |
| 12 | As for the poll I think Gav is just a little bit biased in his choice of Cuntona , as im sure anyone who has seen him will confirm Gavs evening job is actually as a Cuntona look a like you know posing for pictures for the Sun with an easel and tweeds . |
| 13 | This is good news to anyone who has witnessed the way art museums have come to regard paintings and other objects placed in their perpetual trust as a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will . |
| 14 | The soft , shy fingers quivered in her palms , the half-formed flower of a mouth tasted of the spring and the sun . |
| 15 | Continued to support elderly owner occupiers to remain in their own homes . |
| 16 | Koerner examines how artists such as Durer and Baldung Grien registered in their paintings changing attitudes to self in sixteenth-century Germany . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S Julia Snell failed in her bid to repeat her silver-medal start to the freestyle skiing World Cup in Tignes , France . |
| 18 | I feel that this event was another small step towards a recognition of the very important part the car park plays in our culture . |
| 19 | The shocked sense of recognition made her breathless ; her heart fluttered in her breast like the trembling of a captured bird . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're sorry that we teased you — and I promise to wear my blue headband tomorrow , ’ Sophie whispered in her ear . |
| 21 | Thus any construction with an adjective in postverbal position should differ in its semantic value from one using predicative position insofar , but only insofar , as the verb differs in its semantic value from zero . |
| 22 | The PC got in his car and drove off . |
| 23 | Kelly got in her car and headed east towards Feltham . |
| 24 | This seemed reasonable , so reluctantly Sophie got in his car and sat in silence as he drove out to the main road . |
| 25 | Sunderland failed in its bid to win City Challenge cash last year when NorthEast rivals Newcastle and Middlesbrough were successful . |
| 26 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
| 27 | I knew once we started playing electrically we would n't be confusing the journalists and they would n't think it was just some guy from Dinosaur masturbating in his room . |
| 28 | But in spite of every difficulty placed in his path , by the end of July 1941 David Stirling had got roughly what he wanted . |
| 29 | A few yards away , a crippled rasta sits in his wheelchair , killing time . |
| 30 | Since then a number of availability studies have been carried out — Mansbridge summarizes in his 1986 article . |