Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 2 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 3 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 4 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 5 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 6 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 7 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 8 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 9 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
| 10 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 11 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 12 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 13 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 14 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 15 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 16 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 17 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 18 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 19 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 20 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 21 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 22 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 23 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 24 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 25 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 26 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
| 27 | Sometimes I drop out for the first verse of songs and let Keith do rhythm and then I come back in for the second verse ; it brings the level of intensity right up . |
| 28 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 29 | At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside . |
| 30 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |