Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 2 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 5 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 6 | I determined to stamp out the French ‘ flu before it spread . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 9 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 10 | Because of the range of the respective sizes of each range and the feel of the marker pens themselves , I chose to try out the KC-1100 Twin Point Pens in a studio context and the KC-400 Brush Pens in the field . |
| 11 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 12 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 13 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 14 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 15 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 18 | I had to consider seriously the potential risk to John , but if the hostages could be made an issue at home , at the very least the Government would n't be able to ignore their plight and might , consequently , be influenced in their dealings abroad . |
| 19 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 20 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 21 | In the final stages I attempted to draw together the wide ranging tones and then to punctuate these closer tones with an occasional tonic of colour in the foreground — a turquoise yellow or a red . |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 23 | Plus , plus you got to see how the other breeds are doing , and |
| 24 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 25 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 26 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 27 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 28 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 29 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 30 | She began to understand how the bleak vision she had been shown was no more and no less than the extremes to which such powers might go if once they lost touch with the exactions of a loving heart . |