Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 2 | No doubt there was something comic in the situation and I suppose that was what set my mind wandering in the direction of Farmer Bailes ' dog , Shep . |
| 3 | With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station . |
| 4 | I found myself staring at her , my mind devolving from the content of the short and impersonal crematorium service . |
| 5 | The drag of the chain slows it but ca n't stop my club thumping against the side of hi-head . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not ’ , he wrote , ‘ be party to soldiers placed under my command bringing before the Government , by channels other than the hierarchic channel , complaints or protests concerning the execution of my orders . ’ |
| 7 | I hear it clearly on the radio , and I stay leaning forward , close to the receiver , my weight moving to the balls of my feet . |
| 8 | Erm if you have , if you envisage the sea this is the top , I 'm not a great artist as you can see but you , things er here 's my boat sailing on the top of the sea , well there 's laws related to that erm when does a boat , for example , enter territorial waters , come within your law . |
| 9 | My head becomes cloudy as I lie on my rock peering through the grass at the scene down below . |
| 10 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
| 11 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 12 | I lay as if you were there and loved the shape your back had made , had a sense of your silky warmth , my body curling round the heat and wonder of you in my arms . |
| 13 | Yeah that 's my job living on the |
| 14 | I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring . |
| 15 | I was head and shoulders taller than she , my head knocking against the low rafters . |
| 16 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 17 | I 'm left staring at it with my adrenalin draining into the floorboards , and though I wish she 'd let me take them I find I 'm getting bored . |
| 18 | The demise of deep coal mining and hte cessation of mine water pumping into the almond catchment in the early 1970s has depleted river flows to the extent that dry weather flows in the river are now quite inadequate to assimilate increased volumes of sewage effluent from developing areas . |
| 19 | Even my pencil scratching on the paper makes his teeth grate . |
| 20 | I 'd lost my helmet getting into the cab — and did n't realise I was n't wearing protective gloves until I noticed soot on my hands . ’ |
| 21 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 22 | I ran downstairs to the phone , hearing my father coming to the door of his room as I passed it . |
| 23 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 24 | I waited , my breath hanging in the cold , stale air of the telephone kiosk . |
| 25 | I looked round at the class , my finger hovering above the tape-recorder . |
| 26 | The notary gave Broussac a vigorous shove which sent my companion sprawling into the open sewer . |
| 27 | I 'd like to spend my life staying off the ‘ who f—ed who ’ map but you just ca n't control everything . ’ |
| 28 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm the one who 's sacrificed my life paying for the house and its repairs and its decoration , and all the rest of it … . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was the most frustrating time of my life sitting on the bench and watching our hopes blow up in smoke . |