Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 4 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 5 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 6 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 7 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 8 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |
| 9 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 10 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 11 | I determined to stamp out the French ‘ flu before it spread . |
| 12 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 13 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 14 | I started working out a lingering death for Basil . |
| 15 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 16 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 17 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 18 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 19 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 20 | I did hold down a responsible job in my last post , ’ she said . |
| 21 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 22 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 23 | I had separated out a whole slot for an over-60s magazine , Years Ahead . |
| 24 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 25 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 26 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 27 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 28 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 29 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 30 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |