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

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1 I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’
2 When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't .
3 I tend to dish out the red for man trouble , the blue for woman trouble , the yellow for baby trouble , and green for anything else .
4 Someone starts to wind up the pace .
5 I tried to explain then the basis on which we maintain contacts with the Palestinians .
6 I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along .
7 While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen .
8 I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’
9 The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception .
10 As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it .
11 Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ?
12 Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me
13 Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did .
14 I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started .
15 But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV .
16 I want to shut out the noise .
17 . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made .
18 I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four .
19 I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory .
20 But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’
21 I want to finish off the letter now anyway .
22 So I can finish off the , I want to finish off the letter now .
23 I want to check where the plane was , ’ said the policeman .
24 Anyway I want to root out the priest .
25 I want to find out the truth . ’
26 I want to ride up the front with you . ’
27 I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with .
28 Question : I want to work out the total on a set of numeric fields in my Paradox data table , so that I can see how much has been made by my sales staff .
29 I want to know where the hell my dogs are . ’
30 I want , I want to know where the drill is so that I can use
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