Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
2 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
3 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
4 | erm , no I mean apart from the concrete it helps to fill the hole |
5 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
6 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
7 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
8 | Yes but surely they thought that through before they got to the stage that I mean even with the mortgage |
9 | I mean even with the market being depressed there 's still gon na be eight hundred pounds in there . |
10 | I mean conceivably on the tail end of policy H one yesterday , the new settlement is n't going to accommodate all the development needs of Greater York . |
11 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
12 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
13 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
14 | I remain continually on the look-out for unusual behaviour from inanimate objects . |
15 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
16 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
17 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
18 | When I sit here with the laibon and his family I feel envious of their flimsy values . |
19 | As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning . |
20 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
21 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
22 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
23 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
24 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
25 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
26 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
27 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
28 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
29 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
30 | ‘ I sit there in the laboratory , ’ says Phil , ‘ trying to think how people go , and I ca n't remember . |