Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 4 | I determined to stamp out the French ‘ flu before it spread . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 9 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 10 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 11 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 12 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 18 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her . |
| 21 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |
| 22 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 23 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 24 | She wanted to sort out the Social Security first . |
| 25 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |
| 26 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |
| 28 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 29 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 30 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |