Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | I tried to explain then the basis on which we maintain contacts with the Palestinians . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 12 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I want to shut out the noise . |
| 15 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 19 | I want to finish off the letter now anyway . |
| 20 | So I can finish off the , I want to finish off the letter now . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to check where the plane was , ’ said the policeman . |
| 22 | Anyway I want to root out the priest . |
| 23 | I want to find out the truth . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I want to know where the hell my dogs are . ’ |
| 28 | I want , I want to know where the drill is so that I can use |
| 29 | ‘ So I want to know how the investigation is getting on . |
| 30 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |