Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blissfully unaware that I had no obligation to sign any agreement , I put down a ten-pound deposit the same afternoon . |
| 2 | I put out a hand to grasp you , and you slip through my fingers like the quicksilver cascade of a waterfall . |
| 3 | The door began to close and I put out a hand to stop it . |
| 4 | I look around the countryside wanting to get the dirt dished quickly so I can get on with my life . |
| 5 | I pass on the advice given by the Lochcarron police : Do n't panic , the pilots know what they are doing and where they are going . |
| 6 | If the ball is above my feet , I grip down the club to feel more comfortable . |
| 7 | I lean over a drawing-board to approve a sample merkin . |
| 8 | I find myself pausing for a few dots myself before I turn over the page to find where all this is leading . |
| 9 | No , I , no I , I suppose what with Aaron going to playschool I go out every day walking apart from Thursday |
| 10 | I bow over the toilet to retch but reverse away fast as last night 's urine smells like cat shit this morning . |
| 11 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 12 | My legs buckle and I fall off the catwalk shouting , ‘ Stop it ! |
| 13 | If , having read this , you pick up a magazine targeted at younger teenagers — for example , one of the pop music or video games magazines — the layout is so ‘ reader-unfriendly ’ that it seems clear that the criteria for ‘ correctness ’ in a layout need , at least , some re-evaluation for this target audience . |
| 14 | You want to create a good impression every time you pick up the phone to answer it . |
| 15 | You are sometimes so stiffly English that you bring out the need to tease . |
| 16 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 17 | It 's the block that goes in the middle , when you put down the clamp pushes that along . |
| 18 | Every time it rains you look out the window to see if it 's going to happen again . |
| 19 | When you give out the task clarify Who ? |
| 20 | If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders . |
| 21 | Put each in turn into a well-known saying or into a sentence — you and your PP can take it in turns as you go down the list saying the set word followed by a sentence which the word stimulates you to think about . |
| 22 | Well we can get to grips with it at this meeting when you talk amongst yourselves er as to how you divide up the base accounts yeah ? |
| 23 | Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money coming in and what you will have to pay out . |
| 24 | When you take out the Family Bond the investment will be linked to the Family Assurance Performance Fund , which since its launch in January 1987 has achieved an average annual growth rate of over 19% as at 28th February 1990 . |
| 25 | But I can see how you might think you could gain an advantage — me having problems with the local police while you work out a way to come up smelling sweet . |
| 26 | You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms . |
| 27 | We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them . |
| 28 | Most of the time we sit around the clubroom playing cards . |
| 29 | We wake up every morning thinking about competition , and we adjust what we 're doing based on that . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , we set up a unit affiliated to the University of Salzburg to look into the question of stress in music-making ; and also the influence of music on the mind and the body , of healthy people and sick people . |