Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a loathsome instant I felt her awkward quivering weight on my back as she found her feet , and her voice saying … |
| 2 | On my way through Kelvingrove Park I flipped my once-precious packet into a wastebasket and walked on . |
| 3 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 4 | One night in March I visited my old friend at his home in Baker Street . |
| 5 | Of course I saw her naked . |
| 6 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |
| 7 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 8 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 9 | On occasions I also added acrylic medium to the Quink to prevent any unnecessary bleeding of the line , although at times I enjoyed its non-waterproof qualities and allowed the ink to run . |
| 10 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 11 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 12 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 13 | No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week . |
| 14 | Soon after starting my search I found my first good hammered — the Edward half-groat illustrated . |
| 15 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 16 | By dissipating this investment she made her first , and her greatest political error . |
| 17 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 18 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 19 | With a small detached part of her mind she heard her quick , breathless words and realised that she was chattering . |
| 20 | As the thought sprang into her mind she felt her entire body flood with heat even as she shivered in the chilly air . |
| 21 | After tea she unpacked her shabby and much-mended clothes ( no chance of getting stockings for Christmas now , unless Felicity had a practical fit and sent her some ! ) and wrote two letters : a polite little note to Miss Henry , thanking her for past kindness , and a lengthy epistle to Gay , telling her the gloomy news . |
| 22 | In the interview she expressed her enormous relief at the return of the collection built up by her husband Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah since 1975 and now totalling around 20,000 items . |
| 23 | Kos was one of the first female yachting photographers in the UK and through her desire to find new angles on yacht racing pictures she attained her initial breakthrough ( and a little notoriety ) from masthead shots of 12 meters at the 1983 America 's Cup . |
| 24 | On Saturday she had her first visit from a member of her family her grandson , the Duke of York . |
| 25 | I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ? |
| 26 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 27 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 28 | Traditional schools you got everything formal and systematic . |
| 29 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 30 | In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved . |