Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 2 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 3 | I just pulled it up from that bottom . |
| 4 | I finally worked it down to two alternatives . |
| 5 | It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge . |
| 6 | I just brought it up with some er , just in case cos we do n't , we do n't really wan na use that for like these . |
| 7 | He just gave it up like that and he went to Australia ! |
| 8 | Marx downed his glass in one gulp and absent-mindedly held it out for more . |
| 9 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 10 | Although he always sent her out with new clothes that should have made her embody his idea of elegance , he was resigned to the fact that she would return in a version far removed from his original concept . |
| 11 | I hardly roughed him up at all . |
| 12 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 13 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 14 | Ebbo , added Charles , often took her up on this promise . |
| 15 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 16 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 17 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
| 18 | Moviestars invariably fucked you around like this until there was a script to defer to . |
| 19 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 20 | This at least got him through to another summer holiday , but while he was away there was a further worsening . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 22 | Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design , I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers . |
| 23 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 24 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 25 | A record-player shuffled a few simple chords violently together , then dealt them out with heavy emphasis . |
| 26 | He glared down into her determined face and then swept her up in one smooth movement , carrying her into the darkened barn and grimly mounting the wooden steps . |
| 27 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 28 | His good looks and twinkling eyes may have won him female fans , but his 6ft 2½in frame and his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers also firmly marked him out as one of the boys . |
| 29 | I never got it off on that Gary Kibbett stuff . |
| 30 | Where are the 365 collecting boxes for last year 's Ian Botham Walk for Leukaemia that never made it back to Corporate Communications ? |