Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | I , I , I , I did it , but I only missed out the two people that were away . |
| 3 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 4 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 5 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 6 | I quickly trod out the flickering twists of paper , and scrambled across to the door . |
| 7 | I also put on the real Sperzel locking tuning pegs as opposed to the fake ones that Fender are making now . |
| 8 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 9 | Looking up , she slowly spelt out the faded letters on the broken-off arm of the signpost , and then she had a shock . |
| 10 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 11 | Wayne seemed frozen in mid-action as she quickly threw back the top sheet of the bed and climbed in ; but then he recovered , and started an awkward fight to get his shoes off without actually untying their laces . |
| 12 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 13 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 14 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 15 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 16 | When staff at the hospital realised their mistake they quickly brought out the right baby . |
| 17 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 18 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 19 | They even took over the small police station in the El Calvario district , the nearest to the main market , and executed a number of the constables who had taken part in the massacre . |
| 20 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 21 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
| 22 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 23 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 24 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
| 25 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 26 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 27 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 28 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 29 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 30 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |