Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 2 | Or anti-communist , my bike hailing from pre-reunification DDR days . |
| 3 | There were no details other than the knowledge of a fountain of sparks and my skin dissolving like hot margarine . |
| 4 | It 'd be a real pleasure to feel my fingers sinking into that plump throat . |
| 5 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 6 | I do n't want my kids going through that . ’ |
| 7 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 8 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 9 | It was bad enough to have to spend my days acting as occupational therapist to a bunch of linguistic basket-cases without having my social acquaintances dropping in to witness my degradation . |
| 10 | I sat in the back with Rayleen ( could n't you have guessed ? ) and she made me put my right hand in her lap while she ran her fingertips over most of the rest of my body looking for other injuries . |
| 11 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 12 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ I imagined my father sitting in this enormous building doing nothing but taking off his socks and putting them on again . |
| 14 | I feel up inside the overhang where the back of the bench joins the arm , the leather of my gloves catching on rough splinters of metal . |
| 15 | For example , he 'll say something like , ‘ Well , I would n't wan na spend the last two minutes of my life listening to that lick ! ’ |
| 16 | I spent most of my life travelling from one house to another , from one grandparent or great grandparent to another . |
| 17 | Having spent most of my life working on industrial sewing machines , hand knitting and doing crochet , I figured a knitting machine would be no problem . |
| 18 | I remember screaming and my scream breaking into ecstatic laughter and relief as the bear , instead of eating Charlot , started walking splay-footed in imitation of him , then went back into the wood . |
| 19 | To avoid this aggravation , I used to spend my weekends going for long walks by the river . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 21 | And I 'll have my hatred of you to keep my spirits surging in full force . |
| 22 | Lot number ninety seven , ninety seven , the lacquered panel there it is , showing here on my left showing at two hundred pounds , at two hundred pounds and twenty , at two hundred and twenty pounds any more at two twenty , all done ? |
| 23 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 24 | I do not want to waste my time writing for silly buggers like you . |
| 25 | A Buckingham Palace spokesman said of Taki 's allegations : ‘ I would n't waste my time commenting on this . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been biding my time waiting for this Ulster call , and was delighted when John Clarke gave me the nod , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I 've learned a lot in my time working under various managers . |
| 28 | I saw my mother crying on several occasions . |
| 29 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 30 | In the capital , Bogotá , the ruling Liberal Party ( PL ) suffered a notable set-back ( as did the former guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) ) , losing a council seat with their support falling by 30,000 votes . |