Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 2 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 3 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 4 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 5 | Peeling the shit-stained newspaper from the bottom of the cage , I emptied out the accumulated guano and went off to look for some fresh newspaper . |
| 6 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 7 | Said yeah and then I changed my mind as soon as I got out the fucking door . |
| 8 | So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory . |
| 9 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 10 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 11 | I found out the matching address from Directory Inquiry and went round there . " |
| 12 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 13 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
| 14 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
| 15 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 16 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 17 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 18 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 19 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 20 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 21 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 22 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 23 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 24 | In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock . |
| 25 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 26 | I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face . |
| 27 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 28 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 29 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 30 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |