Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After singing " Do n't think twice , it 's all right " , Dylan 's greatest song , my heart feels like shredded cabbage . |
| 2 | How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! |
| 3 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 4 | My breathing slows to normal . |
| 5 | Or anti-communist , my bike hailing from pre-reunification DDR days . |
| 6 | One or two other teachers were encouraged by my willingness to argue against racial prejudice and became more vocal themselves . |
| 7 | The last thing I wanted when I was so worried about what was happening with my own daughter was to spend my sentence surrounded by pregnant women . |
| 8 | My contract ran until two weeks before my son Adam s Barmitzvah and we planned to spend Christmas in Massachusetts then drive down to New Haven to begin re-rehearsing for our American opening at the Long Wharf Theatre . |
| 9 | Well , the answer is that my contract expires after six more commercials . |
| 10 | There were no details other than the knowledge of a fountain of sparks and my skin dissolving like hot margarine . |
| 11 | But I 'm also a Raider and I do n't believe the colour of my skin entered into this decision . ’ |
| 12 | As I try to sleep , my mattress raised on corrugated iron sheeting to discourage the rats from running over me , I hear a familiar sound : click-click , click-click , click-click . |
| 13 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 14 | Cos my mum gets like that a bit . |
| 15 | For example my mum looks after two little boys who are both three . |
| 16 | What does my sister say to all this ? ’ |
| 17 | My sympathy goes to all those who have lost loved ones in motorway smashes over the holiday season , but the emotion I feel most is anger . |
| 18 | and I wanted to , and eh we had done my blood taken for all kinds of tests |
| 19 | As a result of the Priority Japan campaign , which my Department launched with British industry , British exports to Japan have risen by no less than 80 per cent . |
| 20 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 21 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 24 | My mind has at last caught up , and indeed overtaken my body . |
| 25 | On the hustings in my first election campaign in February 1974 , the casualty list among officers of my association consisted of one broken nose , two black eyes and the lady chairman drenched by a bucket of water , which the candidate had ducked . |
| 26 | And I certainly learned the value of keeping my mouth shut about any ideas I might have |
| 27 | I decide to keep my mouth shut about this . |
| 28 | When I opened my mouth to speak on this topic it was as though my lips were sewn together with great stitches in the flesh , and my tongue would not move in my mouth . |
| 29 | My agent deals with all that kind of stuff . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |