Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb past] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bought my Paradise Lost in a second hand book and I ga , shop , and I gave it to Marion . |
| 2 | My eyes snapped open and my mouth gaped in a soundless scream . |
| 3 | Eliot 's enquiry about my work recurred in a letter dated 17 June 1938 , sent to Wychwood , Merstham : |
| 4 | ‘ My husband died in a plane crash last year , so we 've come back to live in England . ’ |
| 5 | My father worked in a market and he got big bundles of it very cheaply . |
| 6 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
| 7 | While I was still labouring away , my mother screamed in a rich contralto . |
| 8 | The intruder was blonde ; her hair shone in a shaft of subdued sunlight from the slatted blind . |
| 9 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 10 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 11 | Its essence lay in a proposal to create an international conference to resolve the Afghan problem by political means . |
| 12 | Three men are missing , presumed dead , after their boat sank in a severe gale within sight of the harbour at Padstow , Cornwall . |
| 13 | But the will , which Rock read in a newspaper , was at first hard to take . |
| 14 | Her neck rose in a long , rounded column to a face which , though not classically beautiful — the nose was too tilted , the mouth too wide — was heart-stopping in its freshness , its air of innocence combined with its look of deep , untapped feminine knowledge . |
| 15 | Her mouth opened in a round O of woe on an undulating panorama of partially masticated cream bun . |
| 16 | Such was the cruel equation by which humanity survived in a hostile universe . |
| 17 | Her cat slept in a basket beside her trunk . |
| 18 | Now if there were pools coupons for rugby union Gloucester would be worth a fortune … amazingly for the second week running their match ended in a score draw … it was 12-12 against Newcastle Gosforth |
| 19 | Her brow rose in a finely sculpted arch . |
| 20 | Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife . |
| 21 | After this , Pakeezah 's brothers went to Pakistan while her younger sister emigrated to England : she now lived in Wembley where her husband worked in a biscuit factory making shortbread . |
| 22 | They have selected some sixty-five oil paintings covering the period of 1893–1903 and restricted to those urban subjects which Pissarro treated in a serial procedure , making subtle adjustments to his position in front of the motif and noting changes in weather , lighting conditions and season , and in street or port traffic . |
| 23 | She walked with a stagger , due to damage to the middle ear , her head swathed in a bandage and saliva dripping from the disfigured side of her mouth . |
| 24 | Her father saw in a vulgar simulacrum of coloured lights and trilling music a true portrayal of a great maritime tragedy ; whereas for her the reality was best conveyed by a simple , static canvas adorned with pigment . |
| 25 | In the gap between the brassière and the pinched waistband of her skirt , her flesh bulged in a pale soft band . |
| 26 | It was possible , he said , that she 'd misjudged its speed , or momentarily fallen asleep , though their manager said in a statement that when they left Minehead they were in fine spirits and showed no signs of tiredness . |
| 27 | Her breath came in a shaky release of tension . |
| 28 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 29 | Her voice broke in a cry . |
| 30 | Her hand fluttered in a small wave . |