Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 2 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 3 | yeah I mean okay cover the languages to show how they did it properly , so if there is something else you want to bring in then that would be good . |
| 4 | I agreed not to tell the police , and said goodbye . |
| 5 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 7 | In other words , I 'd always known the ingredients but had n't been able to put them together . |
| 8 | I 'd better check the figures . |
| 9 | ‘ But first I 'd better check the bedrooms . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'd better find the boats for Venice , ’ she sighed , resigned to the fact that no one had come to meet her . |
| 11 | I 'd better phone the police they 'll know who owns this wood , and get him to free you . |
| 12 | So I waited , he generally turned up , I 've seen him not be up home till eight and half past eight in the morning but he never turned up so about nine o'clock I says , I 'd better phone the police . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 14 | Now I 'd better get the horses in . ’ |
| 15 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 16 | I came home to find the adults in a different tank ( salted for Mollies — but they 're fine ) as the wee Angels were slipping through a ″ gap at the bottom of the divider , to get eaten . |
| 17 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 18 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 19 | I arranged initially to meet the doctors and once again found myself confronting ‘ the dreaded Grabham ’ , as Barbara Castle described Anthony ( now Sir Anthony ) Grabham , the distinguished surgeon who was the backbone of the doctors ' resistance and the most recalcitrant in reaching any compromise of his firm belief that the state had no concern in directing their destiny . |
| 20 | See I have n't got the games around there . |
| 21 | I ve just checked the stats … after 9 games we had won 5 , drawn 4 ( 19 pts ) . |
| 22 | Around five o'clock I dashed back to feed the cats and to see the electrician who had arrived to fit a new ceramic hob which Nigel had ordered . |
| 23 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 24 | I managed somehow to contain the tears as I played but , at night , I was crying myself to sleep . " |
| 25 | I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another . |
| 26 | I could weep with frustration when I go around seeing the conditions some of our people work in , the pittance they have paid , young people hung around on street corners with no job and no real training . |
| 27 | ‘ If I go to church I feel that I go more to escape the chores than for any other reason ! ’ she said aloud . |
| 28 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 29 | Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards . |
| 30 | I look forward with considerable pleasure to our arrival at Flinders whither I proceed purposely to see the remnants of the inhabitants which once peopled this fine Island over which they were Lords and Masters but now submissive creatures to the wiles of Englishmen . |