Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
3 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
4 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
5 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
6 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
7 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
8 | I put on a tremendous act . |
9 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
10 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
11 | I put on a clean collar and go along , happy just to observe . |
12 | ‘ I put on a light foundation and , using earthy browns , subtly highlighted Fiona 's eyes and shaded in her lips with an amber-coloured lipstick . ’ |
13 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
14 | I put down the empty can . |
15 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
16 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
17 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
18 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
19 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
20 | I let out a terrified scream and scuttled down the stairs . |
21 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
22 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
23 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
24 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
25 | I set out the failed supper . |
26 | I set out the failed supper . |
27 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
28 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
29 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
30 | When I drive down the same street in my Ferrari they extend a finger . ’ |