Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 2 | I thought it was Kim sat there when I first come down the stair , I did n't know , did n't know her . |
| 3 | Erm when I first came out the army . |
| 4 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 5 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 6 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 7 | So we all walked down the corner there we all had our beds round there everything was laid out . |
| 8 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 9 | We all prowl around the pool in a fabrication of isolation , none of us speaking . |
| 10 | Outside , the tropical summer air was still warm , and they each wound down the car window beside them as soon as they were seated in Tom 's low vehicle . |
| 11 | They are all partly true and they all make up the totality of a man whom I think very few people — perhaps least of all Niki himself — really understand . |
| 12 | And they all held out the sealskin towards her . |
| 13 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 14 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 15 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 16 | In effect , they both turn over the soil and fertilise the soil . |
| 17 | Then they both creep along the pavement , onto the concrete path , up the concrete stairs to the waiting concrete flat . |
| 18 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 19 | In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates . |
| 20 | However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away . |
| 21 | It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived . |
| 22 | Nor is he likely to wind up the debate as I understand that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Darlington ( Mr. Fallon ) , or some other English Minister will do so . |
| 23 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 24 | Once she would have chatted , laughed , teased him , asked where he came from , what he did ; now she found it hard to summon up the energy to care . |
| 25 | You will find it helpful to work out the length indicated by the ? before you work out the area . |
| 26 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 27 | Highbury boss Graham said afterwards : ‘ He first picked up the injury against Nottingham Forest , then aggravated it with England and he 's aggravated it again . |
| 28 | Each morning he first switched on the power for his terminal . |
| 29 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 30 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |