Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I finally went back to my G P on the seventh day which was a Saturday in the morning , and he told me to carry on taking the drug . |
| 2 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 3 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 4 | That Labour amendment I read out mentioned the airport money . |
| 5 | Anyway , that was the other thing , it was raining so hard , rattling at the windowpane in the dark … even so , I was convinced I 'd heard something , and at that hour there 's nobody else up except the baker , and he 's over here on this side of the Piazza , so I got up to take a look and saw this girl lying there in the rain . |
| 6 | So I got up to have a look out of the side window . |
| 7 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 10 | When we eventually reached the Taj , I bent down to examine the inlay on the tombs more closely . |
| 11 | ‘ I bent down to smell a brose in my garden , ’ replied the woman . |
| 12 | She and I separated ( it was like trying to unpick a mangled shoelace ) and I staggered through to take the call . |
| 13 | Then I stopped off to do a bit of shopping , cash in Betty Y 's prescription et cetera . |
| 14 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 15 | I woke up to find the doctor lifting me very carefully into my own bed . |
| 16 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 17 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 18 | ‘ Thought he might have hurt himself or something so I came out to have a look . |
| 19 | I strolled over to have a look . |
| 20 | Ahead of me , to my right , the humps of Yorburgh and Drumaldrace shimmered in the heat as I dropped down following a kink where the road crosses a beck . |
| 21 | When we stroll past the front of the van I peep up to check the reaction , and I guess that the two cops hunched inside see these two anxious faces glancing nervously , and they decide it is n't worth climbing out the van for , and I reckon that if I was them I too would lock the doors and stay inside . |
| 22 | ‘ However , on the day in question I turned round to see a car coming slowly towards me , and I stepped aside . |
| 23 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 24 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 25 | In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent . |
| 26 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 27 | This time with a light plastic bag containing nothing more than a sketchpad and a book ( Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official ) I set out to have a look at Roscommon Town . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 30 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |