Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] a " 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 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 8 | Her ankles turned over a little on the high heels . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 16 | Glancing over the line as it arced over the lake , her eyes took on a faintly emerald glow . |
| 17 | Housekeeper and companion Muriel Fryatt was on her knees cleaning out a fire grate on the morning of February 6 , 1952 . |
| 18 | She put her hands over her ears to shut out a repetition of all those humiliating accusations , her training flying straight out of the window . |
| 19 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 20 | For some weeks their lives took on a settled pattern of difference . |
| 21 | Ahead lay a steep , narrow valley and a village , diminutive at this distance , its buildings clustered round a harbour . |
| 22 | Food at Greenways is wholesome , fresh and plentiful ( Jill and Mike count on their guests working up a good appetite from walking ) with herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden . |
| 23 | She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself . |
| 24 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 25 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 26 | Just before dawn on 1 October , six generals and brigadiers were murdered and their bodies thrown down a well at a nearby military base , Halim . |
| 27 | We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance . |
| 28 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 29 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 30 | The sun was showing a different sheen as its beams passed over a stretch of the stone floor . |