Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 2 | combing my hair out in a darkened room |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ’ |
| 4 | Just knocked my tooth out with a hammer and chisel , that 's all . " |
| 5 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 6 | I cried my eyes out for a night then started writing my own songs . |
| 7 | Well usually cos I got my feet up on a bench and I ca n't reach keyboard so |
| 8 | ‘ I 've cut my boss out like a cancer but I ca n't drive past where I used to work , ’ she says . |
| 9 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 10 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 11 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 12 | I 'm a bit tired , to be honest ; I 'm going to get my head down for a while . |
| 13 | If he was n't home , I 'd go back to the squat and keep my head down for a few days . |
| 14 | I like having my head down in a border listening to conversations as visitors go past . |
| 15 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 16 | But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience . |
| 17 | During the worst period for external conditions of the whole three years the only book I could get hold of ( and then only after putting my name down on a waiting list ) was Somerset Maugham 's enormous Of Human Bondage . |
| 18 | It 's helped my career up to a point . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's a lovely , intelligent , sensitive woman who continues to turn my life around in a wonderfully positive way . ’ |
| 20 | nice talking to someone about education cos I talk to some people and they think I 'm crackers cos I took my kid out of a state school ! |
| 21 | I yelled , flinging my arms about in a style I might have copied from them . |
| 22 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 23 | I might have held my end up in a brawl with a three year old kid , if the kid was n't feeling too good either . |
| 24 | The grammar turned the whole of my stomach over like a huge unwieldy omelette . |
| 25 | Soon after my mother died Fat Vince took my dad out in a famous fight , by the gents " in the alley when the Shakespeare was young . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while . |
| 27 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to take my clothes off in a car full of … of female sex-perverts , you can forget it . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 29 | I felt better now and decided to lie my way out of a tricky situation . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes I arrive on the set knowing I could n't act my way out of a paper bag . ’ |