Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I palpated the abdomen with a grim certainty as to what I would find and there was no surprise , only a dull sadness as my fingers closed around a hard lobulated mass deep among the viscera . |
| 2 | But instead , my fingers closed around a small , ice-cold hand ! |
| 3 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 4 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 5 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 6 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 7 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 8 | When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 10 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 11 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 12 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 13 | I frantically started to use my hands to bale out the water in an attempt to avoid the seemingly inevitable embarrassing swim in to the beach and the awaiting crowd of families and friends . |
| 14 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 15 | Once few dared the wrath of Caledor , for their Dragonriders could ravage a foe 's armies and lands in hours , the great leathery wings of their mounts blotting out the sky with their numbers . |
| 16 | Her ankles turned over a little on the high heels . |
| 17 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 18 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 19 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 20 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 21 | She strolled around the perimeter of the room as he poured the pale amber liquid , her fingers skimming over a small marble figure of a faun , then across a tiny enamelled box , and finally she paused before an oil-painting of a man . |
| 22 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 23 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 24 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 25 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 26 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 27 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 28 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 29 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 30 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |