Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I palpated the abdomen with a grim certainty as to what I would find and there was no surprise , only a dull sadness as my fingers closed around a hard lobulated mass deep among the viscera . |
| 2 | But instead , my fingers closed around a small , ice-cold hand ! |
| 3 | My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie 'd asked me if I 'd like to make a bit on the side . |
| 4 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 5 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 6 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 7 | My boss put down the Record , rose and stretched expansively . |
| 8 | ‘ But my daddy babbled out the truth . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My team put up a good workmanlike performance . |
| 10 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 11 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 12 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 13 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 14 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 15 | Well , my friend brought out a frisbee right ? |
| 16 | My wife went down the fellside to a cottage and the lady kindly called 999 for help . |
| 17 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 18 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 19 | Before he died my father set up a trust to endow the Sherman Field Museum of Natural History in Washington . |
| 20 | A telephone caller to the South African Press Association claiming to be a commander of the Azanian People 's Liberation Army ( APLA ) , the military wing of the radical black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , said : ‘ My people carried out the attack . ’ |
| 21 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 22 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 23 | I thought I was about to faint , and could pay no attention as my companion pointed out the Clervals , a wealthy merchant family , of whom Henry Clerval was a close friend of Victor 's ; Duvillard , a rich banker , and his new wife ; Louis Manoir ; and many other local notables . |
| 24 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 25 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 26 | The level of opposition that existed when my predecessor brought in the contract will be shown by history to have been wildly overstated . |
| 27 | And my ankle gave out a sound like a pistol-shot . |
| 28 | My flatmate moved out a month ago , and in that month I 've used it as an excuse to binge . |
| 29 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 30 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |