Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them discreetly asks how the other 's business is doing . |
| 2 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 3 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 4 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 5 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 6 | I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed . |
| 7 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 8 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 9 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 12 | Not only did I not know how the apple had come to be on the bookcase , or in the house for that matter ; but how could it be perfect in every way . |
| 13 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 14 | oh no , I just pick out the kidneys . |
| 15 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 16 | Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ? |
| 17 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 18 | Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ? |
| 19 | I just brought up the files . |
| 20 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 21 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 22 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 23 | They asked him how he did it , and he replied , ‘ I just put away the bits of wood that do n't look like elephants ’ . |
| 24 | But even with her help I do n't concentrate properly in class , I just dream away the time , and then I ca n't answer the teacher 's questions . ’ |
| 25 | Sorry about that , could I just ask briefly the difference between a cooperative and an agency ? |
| 26 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 27 | I just wonder why the hell he would like to see Gary McAllister sign for Rangers ? |
| 28 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 29 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 30 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |