Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice .
4 I eventually tracked down the ward sister , who was wrestling with an intravenous drip that had collapsed .
5 I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond .
6 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 :
7 I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty
8 ‘ Well , I only write down the figures , really , but I do find it fascinating . ’
9 ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam .
10 Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ?
11 oh no , I just pick out the kidneys .
12 When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair .
13 Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ?
14 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 !
15 Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
16 I just brought up the files .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white !
20 — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored .
21 I just hang round the entrance and wait for her .
22 ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda .
23 I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name .
24 When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings .
25 I always play down the beauty of a model . ’
26 Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’
27 I yesterday got out the Box from the Marianne .
28 I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather .
29 I also jot down the questions I did answer and ask myself if my answers were open or closed .
30 I also took on the position knowingly of the bad reputation in Scotland of Sports to the trade regarding hotel sales of your equipment , but was promised that this practice would be cut out .
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