Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 2 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 4 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 5 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and |
| 6 | And I thought to myself no I 'm not gon na go out , I did start to go out the park and I thought no . |
| 7 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 8 | Then he give up , he got , you know , older and we bought the pony off him and she was used to rounds , you see , and she was used to pulling , after you 'd started going down the Fen she knew all the places . |
| 9 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 10 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 11 | Finally she felt compelled to pick up the conversation , make some pretence at normality . |
| 12 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 13 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 14 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 15 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 16 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 17 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 18 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 19 | It had been painful to watch her struggle for her self-respect , but she had managed to ward off the threatened nervous breakdown . |
| 20 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |
| 21 | The plans we had have gone out the window . |
| 22 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 23 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 24 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 25 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 26 | When direct dealing costs , brokerage and VAT were included they tended to help filter out the trades that were only marginally profitable and hence raised the overall profitability . |
| 27 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 28 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 29 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 30 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |