Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who does that belong to ? ’ he asks , and I squeeze my legs together as though to resist him , and it feels good ; so good that my back arches . |
| 2 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 3 | ‘ Mike , you deliberately loosened my ropes more than you needed to . |
| 4 | Just cracked my knuckles rather as well . |
| 5 | Miss Priss on a silk cushion , yowling my bahoolas off as soon as I could run away . ’ |
| 6 | He lifted his head , darkly flushed , and his mouth was on hers , opening her lips hungrily while she gasped , pressing against him , her hands in his hair , on his strong neck , his shoulders , blind to everything but her own overpowering excitement . |
| 7 | They would sit patiently either side of my word processor as I wrote into the small hours , purring appreciatively when I was pleased with myself , and opening their eyes enquiringly when I was not . |
| 8 | Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists . |
| 9 | In a sense this tendency was enhanced by the nature of the LEA guidelines , which requested a great deal of factual information in addition to an appraisal , and the advisers themselves who in some cases presented the purpose of the self-appraisal in terms of explaining their practices rather than appraising them . |
| 10 | We want ten and fifteen people stood there in the street , you want their T-shirts on because I have never yet had one person say to me , I wo n't sign it because I think they should shut . |
| 11 | Some tinies will find the pace busy , and will enjoy their evenings better if you pick them up early one or two days a week . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , but with some local exceptions as in Sheffield , people in lower middle-class occupations ( shopkeepers , clerks , junior teachers , and businessmen ) limited their families later than the professional classes — possibly more because of the greater hold of traditional and religious influences on their behaviour than because their need was any the less ( Woods and Smith 1983 ) . |
| 13 | Agreement is more likely if both parties explore their interests rather than state their positions . |
| 14 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 15 | The vast majority who remained in work found their wages more than kept pace with inflation . |
| 16 | Erm , your Mum wants her pears so if you put them in the fridge they 'll be alright she said they were she picked out nice hard ones . |
| 17 | Under the 1988 Housing Act , local authorities will have to increase their rents further if they allow arrears and fail to achieve 100 per cent rent collection . |
| 18 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 19 | They lost at home again yesterday they shall find themselves some trouble if they do n't buck their ideas up whether they 're lacking or not |
| 20 | She must have come to know her employers better than many others , and certainly in a quite different and unusual way . |
| 21 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 22 | At yesterday 's appeal hearing in Brno , a colleague of Mr Devaty , Jana Petrova , handed the judge a statement on his behalf which said that Mr Devaty did not regard his trial as just and would pursue his activities underground while the risk of punishment remained . |
| 23 | One contemporary chronicler ( Bartholomew Cotton , q.v. ) tells us that he attempted to drown himself en route to the Tower and that he also attempted to dash his brains out while in custody , but he came to no harm and by October had been released and begun paying a fine . |
| 24 | The words ended on a grim note , while a small frown drew his brows together as he regarded her . |
| 25 | Jackson put the phone down , swung round on to the bed and drew his feet up until he was sitting cross-legged . |
| 26 | Doogie left him about twenty yards away , then walked back to me , dusting his hands off as he came . |
| 27 | The sepoy was a large and powerful man , Fleury had been weakened by the siege ; the sepoy had led a hard life of physical combat , Fleury had led the life of a poet , cultivating his sensibilities rather than his muscles and grappling only with sonnets and suchlike … |
| 28 | Charlemagne used his womenfolk indirectly as safety-valves for the resentments of male kin , and directly as props to his own authority . |
| 29 | He clenched his teeth together before he lost control and cried out . |
| 30 | You ca n't compromise your feelings just because of the money . |