Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 2 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 3 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 4 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 5 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 6 | Well I was I 've looked , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire , I 've just glanced down the table at certainly at the er my Greater York district colleagues , and er certainly we er are rather surprised that er you have the impression that you have the impression that er erm we could do without the erm the new settlement , quite clearly erm erm certainly Harrogate , Selby , er and Ryedale , and the County Council , believe the the new settlement is absolutely essential , erm and I think that 's erm erm certainly a matter of agreement between er us and those three districts , it 's absolutely essential . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 8 | I think I 've even left out the worst bits . |
| 9 | Study the fretboard diagrams and I 've also written out the exercise ( in C Major ) . |
| 10 | I 've also written down the serial numbers of the two wagons if that will be any help to you . ’ |
| 11 | I 've almost paid off the debt and soon I may have enough to put something aside for savings . |
| 12 | I 've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend . |
| 13 | I have already set out the dangers of allowing a governmental authority to have the right to sue . |
| 14 | I have now worked out the numbers of the 7 client based leaflets we have distributed over approximately 1 year . |
| 15 | I have often spelt out the long-term answer . |
| 16 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 18 | Although judging by the telex you 've already tracked down the plutonium . ’ |
| 19 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 20 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 21 | She had already started down the scree of debris in pursuit . |
| 22 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 23 | Eddie had cut away most of his thin nondescript hair , cropping it close to the skull , and she had also cut back the hair on his forehead , giving him a pronounced widow 's peak . |
| 24 | She had religiously sought out the warrant officer chef every day to offer him her tail , and by the sixth day she had him purring like a kitten . |
| 25 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 26 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 27 | Yes , we could , if you wish actually cut back the complaint examiner time further because there is a clear , very clear , front runner , who Chris and I both believe is appointable , so if it was a question of getting somebody in more quickly , there is the option of not having the second interview , as long as you 're prepared to , you know , to forego that , to get somebody in quickly , but that , I mean that decision can be made at the time . |
| 28 | If you have already started down the route on your own and missed out some ( or all ) of the steps you will begin to realise what remedial action you need to take to put everything back on course . |
| 29 | Then , later on , when you have both built up the small-animal side , she could have a share of the profits . ’ |
| 30 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |