Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 2 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 3 | I do my bedroom out every day — sweep it and dust the furniture and I do something else every day , like I dust the tops of the cupboards or I give the wardrobe a polish . |
| 4 | I 'd better try to tidy my desk up a bit . ’ |
| 5 | oi Touch my sort out the Like to think that we can afford something like this . |
| 6 | I mean , I could go from anywhere , Lowerick down to the borders and I 'd I 'd be , I 'd feel at home , but I would n't feel I mean , I went down to England for something like four days , and like from Berwick , ma , about it must be about ten miles from Berwick to the Scottish , the Scotland thing and I was a craning my head out the bus window to see it ! |
| 7 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 8 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is that 's my week up the spout like , in n it ? |
| 9 | He invited neighbours to meet me , cajoled them into opening their houses , and sent word on my behalf down every tendril of the Goan grapevine . |
| 10 | Take Ian Woosnam , who , if I turn my notebook back a week , I find saying such things as : ‘ I am not in the groove at all . |
| 11 | , he 's probably widdleing nothing , poor that was n't worth sitting down for , no to think that once I 've gone on , which I did on Friday , I 'm now on my way out the other end |
| 12 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 13 | I appreciate I should n't be spending my time up a ladder , |
| 14 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 15 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 16 | Yeah if they if their churning out the stock that tu tend to churn out , I mean I go along for an enquiry for a few and find they 've got thousands in stock . |
| 17 | They liked watching her play out a Cinderella fantasy , wearing gold lamé and riding in a gold-plated carriage to a ball from which she did not return until well after midnight . |
| 18 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
| 19 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |
| 20 | She is threatening to sue Mr Peter Owen , BA director of operations , unless he retracts a claim that the offer of her job back a ‘ second chance . ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ When she does her buttock squeezes she lifts the whole of her back off the floor , but the back should remain flat on the floor . |
| 22 | Blanche pushed her chair back a couple of paces . |
| 23 | She turned the pages quickly , ran her finger down a column , and said , ‘ Ah , Ian Woodall , qualified London the same year as Robert Sheldrake . |
| 24 | She forced her voice down an octave . |
| 25 | There is , too , some uncertainty as to how much support his present strategy receives from the Foreign Office ; apparently , not all of its advisers back the brash approach . |
| 26 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 27 | And why is Ellie dragging her suitcase out the front door ? |
| 28 | ‘ She 's making it all up , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she ca n't help it , she 's had no family life and it 's held her brain back a bit . |
| 29 | There were lots of people in plastic rain hoods puffing their way up a huge , cobbled stairway , complaining at how wide apart the steps had been laid . |
| 30 | INSURANCE was the furthest thing from Pat Whyte 's mind as she edged her way down an Austrian ski slope . |