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 |