Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be my sword arm and my scourge , the bane of my enemies and the defender of my children . ’ |
| 2 | Touch-legering is not necessary , or so I think when the line is snatched from my fingers and the rod slams over from a vicious bite . |
| 3 | It would be a magnet , like Victor said , pulling at my fingers and the palm of my hand . |
| 4 | As she went on talking , making occasional references to the length of my fingers or the breadth of my brow , I thought it ironical that this odd woman should be defending me , not from outright attack but from my mother 's protectiveness . |
| 5 | AN ANIMAL SOUND , like a bull in tumescence , was intruding in the helmet , a yowling , roaring noise , audible even above the roar of the engine behind my shoulders and the rush of wind which was buffeting them . |
| 6 | I 've the problems of the world on my shoulders and the Captain snapping at my heels . |
| 7 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 8 | But I did not open my eyes until the firing had stopped . |
| 9 | ‘ There were tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat , ’ she said later . |
| 10 | ‘ Sweeter it is to my ears than the mewing of gulls ’ , she said . ’ |
| 11 | Silence , but for the hiss of blood in my ears and the thud of my heart . |
| 12 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 13 | I must just stretch my legs while the jury are coming back alright . |
| 14 | But the recognition did n't flash along my neurons in time to activate my legs before the thing exploded in my face with a breathy puff . |
| 15 | Hands clutched at my legs whilst the horse , thoroughly alarmed , reared , flailing his iron-shod hooves . |
| 16 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 17 | But then I thought , they 're recognising something about my pictures or the place , and now I do n't mind ’ . |
| 18 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 19 | Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain . |
| 20 | Instinctively , I got to my feet when the pitch , slant and speed seemed right . |
| 21 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 22 | I fell in love with a boy with a crew cut who came to mend our roof with the window cleaner who grinned at me in my rollers and the boy in Vallance 's record shop with a sport face . |
| 23 | I was reluctant to trust my senses but the sign was unmistakable . |
| 24 | I became very proud of my wounds as the pain grew less , and I enjoyed flashing the bandage around to gain sympathy , until one night , after a couple of months , the nail fell off without warning . |
| 25 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 26 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 27 | Of course tiredness affects it as do my periods and the time of the day even . |
| 28 | I polished my shoes and no mistake that morning . |
| 29 | ‘ There is nothing up my sleeves but my arms , there is nothing down my trousers but a ferret . ’ |
| 30 | My father and mother were living at Sleetburn , where I was born , with my grandparents and a great-uncle , when Low Birk Hatt came up for auction . |