Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 32 | ‘ So why do I go on expanding the company instead of putting up my feet and shooting the breeze ? ’ |
| 33 | And I keep on forgetting the name of the group . |
| 34 | Mind , God knows why I keep on recording the children for posterity , the way they are now . |
| 35 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 36 | So what I did , I went round to tell the guy , John he was the sales guy at the local Vo , Audi-Volkswagen place , and I said , John , I want to buy Barbara a car . |
| 37 | I went on to join the Kent team and later the National Display Team . |
| 38 | I went on attending the university , doing my course modules , and avoiding intimacy in whatever way it proffered itself to me . |
| 39 | " I wanted to keep it because I did n't want to leave him while I went out to use the phone — assuming there 's one round here that works , which I doubt , " she said . |
| 40 | I went out to bring the washing in and he 'd got them in his mouth ! |
| 41 | He dumped his overnight bag with mine and I went out to tell the driver we were just coming . |
| 42 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 43 | I went out to check the date on the and to turn the place over . |
| 44 | I went down to put the kettle on and while I was doing so in walked Albert . |
| 45 | So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ? |
| 46 | I went down to unlock the door , and we came upstairs very quietly . |
| 47 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 48 | I went in to watch the day 's most elegant event … the private driving competition . |
| 49 | After we 'd satisfied ourselves that there was sufficient prey I went off to walk the terrain . |
| 50 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 51 | He became more active in the business again , and I grew up learning the ropes . ’ |
| 52 | I carry on rolling the ball . |
| 53 | Instead I warmed up retracing the predawn walk to Cross where I would collect the big rucksack and the last bus to Stornoway . |
| 54 | Er I come up to draw the President 's attention erm to a problem we have within the delegation and that is that when er Dick called the mover of resolution three eight one in the name of the Lancashire region John who was going to move the resolution was in fact sat in his seat within the delegation . |
| 55 | I have a lot of ideas to work through before I come out predicting the future . ’ |
| 56 | I waited around to watch the burial . |
| 57 | Early one morning , I ran up to find the horses had the same idea . |
| 58 | I wrote back asking the reasons for this , pointing out that , if any large modern power station deserved to be listed , it was Bankside . |
| 59 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 60 | There between my legs , the front wheels , and I ended up holding the handlebars and staring into this wee boy 's face a look of sheer fucking terror on his face , |