Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , ‘ Want to try again ? ’ and I rabbit-punch him in the throat . |
| 2 | Calling Emily , I legged it to the youth hostel two miles away . |
| 3 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |
| 4 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 5 | for granddad , well I ca n't get that from the kids and that 's it , that was to my dad so I got him that one in the end |
| 6 | The Mail began bingo as an answer to the bingo weapons of the Daily Star and the Sun in their circulation war and they dignified it with the name ‘ Casino ’ , but a heap of dung by any other name still smells the same . |
| 7 | she says but she come out and got her wee one in the car and not David and the wee , the other wee boy into the car and left Michelle or Ashley standing there and drove off . |
| 8 | Barbara : They irate you in the lesson , so you ca n't get to work . |
| 9 | Just then Mother Bombie came trundling up , so they legged it into the scutching room . |
| 10 | ‘ He unshackled us from the formality we had started to develop ’ , said one of the top staff in the Research Department . |
| 11 | Wittingham made it two nil on the hour and then followed two further goals from Wittingham with Faraday replying for Bournemouth , but Wittingham struck again his fourth to make the final score ; Portsmouth five , Bournemouth one . |