Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peer was silent but I knew he was following my progress intently because every now and then I had to brush aches from the surface of the uterus . |
| 2 | The image of the insect may pass over the edge of my retina rather than the more acute central region . |
| 3 | There was a silence and then he added something that stayed in my mind more than the chains , more , in fact , than anything else he had said . |
| 4 | " When you crept into my room less than a week ago , you were n't so shy about touching me . |
| 5 | I sat day in day out with headphones over my ears , ‘ Irish Press , can I help you ? ’ nearly losing my job once because the owner of the newspaper , Vivian De Valera , thought I was too forward on the telephone … my manner was not subservient enough . |
| 6 | I knew I would never have the courage to go and ask for my job back after the baby was born , even if circumstances allowed it ; it would soon be filled again , and it 's always horrible to go back to a place where you 've been happy in your own little niche and find somebody else in it . |
| 7 | Could I hold my head still while the doctor cut into my eyes with a knife ? |
| 8 | ‘ I had repeated arguments with my coach Harold Howcroft , because I preferred a straight arm recovery , but that suited my style better than the alternative . |
| 9 | I finishes my cuppa just before the train is due . |
| 10 | He could see I was wavering and he held my arm tightly as the others came up . |
| 11 | I think of my Mother still as the best woman I have ever known . |
| 12 | Who are we to judge and belittle the nature of their experience merely because the profit-motive has made it possible . |
| 13 | Part of the Wall , it was the same dull pearl in colour , a great circle five times Ben 's height , its base less than an arm 's length above the surface of the ground , its outer edge a thick ridge of steel-tough plastic . |
| 14 | People had a right to decide how to spend their money rather than the government . |
| 15 | Members of the public will be entitled to claim their money back if no play takes place on one day , because of rain . |
| 16 | Talking of which , ’ she glanced at her watch just as the phone rang , ‘ I should n't be here . ’ |
| 17 | A third parameter is allowed and should be used if the target database is DEC Rdb/VMS and the VMS username is not comparable with its UIC. e.g. if the VMS username is RDBITEST and the associated UIC is [ C2168 , RDBITEST ] then this parameter may be left blank . |
| 18 | Thérèse held it for her , burning her fingers even as the icy water dripped over them . |
| 19 | And all are derived from one Pininfarina concept car — the Dino Berlinetta Speciale — which made its debut more than a quarter of a century ago at the 1965 Paris show . |
| 20 | It came to her that she could tell where the walls stopped being her skin only because the blue shaded down a spectrum from azure to sapphire . |
| 21 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 22 | The Prosecution claim the two men were racing their cars just before the accident happened . |
| 23 | MORE than 20 people were evacuated from their homes yesterday after a suicidal man filled his flat with gas . |
| 24 | but nothing stirred their animosity more than the treatment of General Dyer after the massacre at Amritsar . |
| 25 | MPs had difficulty getting their mail today because the Commons post office was bunged up with parcels containing lumps of coal addressed to Michael Heseltine . |
| 26 | Naturally , a computer can send its data faster than a printer can handle it , and this situation is made worse by using PostScript . |
| 27 | They were able to be original in their methods precisely because the Labour movement was weak and did not trap them in the confines of established institutions and procedures . |
| 28 | Firms will be expected to provide accounting information to their successors even when a fee dispute is still outstanding , and firms undertaking additional work will normally be expected to notify the incumbent . |
| 29 | Polly wondered instantly , and clamped her lips together so the words did n't spill out . |
| 30 | Ann raises her eyes heavenward when the diary is mentioned : ‘ It is a fact of life that young girls write horrible things about people in their diaries , ’ she says . |