Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We looked at him , then at each other and finally I got out the lip salve and said ‘ OK , it 's showtime ! ’ and Kim said : ‘ Whatever do you mean ? ’ |
| 2 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 3 | Then I skipped down the entry ladder with indescribable relief . |
| 4 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 5 | I pulled up the gluey flap . |
| 6 | When they was all out at work on Monday , I could stand it no longer , I pulled down the loft ladder and dragged meself up it , plaster and all . |
| 7 | I pulled back the shower curtain , exposing her fully . |
| 8 | I pulled back the glass panel between us and gave her the ritual Belfast greeting . |
| 9 | I glued up the cat flap . |
| 10 | The outside air temperature was above minimum , but I switched on the engine anti-ice anyway , just to be sure . |
| 11 | Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside . |
| 12 | I rang up the ticket office but just got a recorded message . |
| 13 | I looked up the phone directory and , sure enough , there was a P.Lawn , ( luckily not a common name ! ) , from which we surmised , correctly , that Ken had died but Pat was still there . |
| 14 | I looked out the kitchen window and there he was , standing at the back gate with a bunch of red roses in his hand . ’ |
| 15 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 16 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 17 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 18 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 19 | Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head . |
| 20 | I picked up the Evening News from one of the street sellers and looked through its entertainment pages . |
| 21 | I picked up the carrier bag where the postmistress had packed my groceries . |
| 22 | She laid down the printing frame that she held . |
| 23 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 24 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 25 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 26 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 27 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 28 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 29 | As she roared down the village street , Werewolf unlocked the BMW . |
| 30 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |