Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given lands and privileges to get knight service , and kept my army in the field by contracts my forefathers never countenanced . |
| 2 | I 'm very unfit and my heart nearly jumped out of my skin . ’ |
| 3 | I was feeling pretty angry with her as I stomped across that big field , but when I reached her my heart just melted . |
| 4 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 5 | Pre-Hugo , come to think of it , my hair never got mussed . |
| 6 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 7 | My chest duly received its dose of milirems . |
| 8 | My Mum also ran in the Mum and Dads race which my mum did not do too well . |
| 9 | My mum probably did your scrubbing . ’ |
| 10 | My mum nearly said shit yesterday , a nervous breakdown . |
| 11 | What is it my Mum ever said , I ca n't , ca n't , what was it Mum ? |
| 12 | My mum never took any board but now I 've got this job I 'll have to start paying her . |
| 13 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 14 | Put it this way at least my Mum never beat up my Dad . |
| 15 | I somehow avoided all of the obstacles and my fingers soon touched one of the wooden spokes . |
| 16 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 17 | My sister never gave twopence for convention either . ’ |
| 18 | My sister always had her own trendy style ; ever since we were little I 've been aware that she was prettier than me , but she is unassuming and unaware of it . |
| 19 | My presence there seemed , suddenly , an intrusion ; my curiosity , if not an outrage , at any rate no excuse for going any further . |
| 20 | He poked his way swiftly along my teeth then rapped out , " Five fillings and one extraction ! " |
| 21 | ‘ Unfortunately that 's where my luck usually ran out . |
| 22 | Oh I see that , that 's how you remember , oh the other day I went to look at Asda you know , put my card in the machine and my mind just went totally blank , do you think I could remember the dam number . |
| 23 | Through my mind there reverberated the words from Portrait of a Lady , ‘ Memories of my dead life , and Paris in the Spring ’ , the meaning of which every lover of Paris can echo , even if he had no dead life in either George Moore 's or Eliot 's sense , or even if his most memorable visit to Paris took place , as mine did , at another season . |
| 24 | Well a , my kids always got a , something at Christmas not very much at times , and they looked forward to it . |
| 25 | The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born . |
| 26 | ‘ Actually , it was a terribly hard decision to make , because my album just came out two months ago here and the only negative thing is that I ca n't be here to promote it . |
| 27 | I lay on my bed and my eyes finally fell shut . |
| 28 | My nose never smelt such noisome smells , and my eyes never beheld such ghastly spectacles ’ . |
| 29 | My eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloom , and I managed to grope my way to the station . |
| 30 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |