Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 3 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 4 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 5 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 6 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 7 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 8 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 9 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 10 | I put down the empty can . |
| 11 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
| 12 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 13 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 14 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 15 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 16 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 17 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 18 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 19 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 20 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 21 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 22 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 23 | When I drive down the same street in my Ferrari they extend a finger . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 25 | I continue along the dark pavement with my hands thrust deep inside my pockets . |
| 26 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 27 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 28 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 29 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 30 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |