Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Rose , ’ she said silently , ‘ you make my heart want to burst out of me . |
| 2 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 3 | My heart began to pound . |
| 4 | My stomach lurched and my heart began to pound . |
| 5 | Breathing with the others , my heart began to beat very fast , and soon my fingertips were tingling. ; eventually my whole body was filled by trembling . |
| 6 | My heart seemed to stop beating , then kick reluctantly into life again , like those temperamental old generators of colonial Danu . |
| 7 | How my heart leaped to see a red pillar box once more , on the other side of the compound ! |
| 8 | My heart started to thump . |
| 9 | My Heart bleeds to see the Concern he is in ; and it would be the utmost Satisfaction to me , if I could hope any thing of mine could contribute to his comfortable Subsistence in his old Age : I therefore beg of you to take the Key of my Buroe ; and if any thing is to be made of my poor Papers , that you will , for my sake , endeavour to promote a Subscription for his Benefit , which you so kindly have propos 'd for mine |
| 10 | My heart sank to see their faces . |
| 11 | She cried : ‘ My heart Burns to think that the mayor could stoop so low as to try Robin or Fleece-ing us like this . ’ |
| 12 | The fact is that Schubert 's Symphonies are appallingly badly served at present , with the exception of the ‘ Unfinished ’ and ‘ Great ’ , although there too my heart tends to sink at the memory of even some of the established ‘ best buys ’ . |
| 13 | And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall ! |
| 14 | ‘ The first thing I decided was that my hair had to come off . ’ |
| 15 | My hair seems to have lost some of its colour as I 've got older . |
| 16 | Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out . |
| 17 | Once they stopped the drugs they were giving me , my hair started to come back . |
| 18 | The way I wear my hair has to suit my dress . ’ |
| 19 | It was a mistake on my part to try to cover the grey with lowlights . |
| 20 | 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time . |
| 21 | On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism . |
| 22 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 23 | Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable . |
| 24 | It is my responsibility to try to include something for everyone . |
| 25 | My patience began to ebb . |
| 26 | Then , the surface of my skin began to get hotter and hotter . |
| 27 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 28 | Then I started to be sick and my skin started to peel and drop off . |
| 29 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 30 | But my mum had to go |