Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] the [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 put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 7 | I put down the empty can . |
| 8 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 11 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 12 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 13 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 14 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 15 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 16 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 17 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 18 | When I drive down the same street in my Ferrari they extend a finger . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 20 | I continue along the dark pavement with my hands thrust deep inside my pockets . |
| 21 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 22 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 23 | I 'm pretty confused when I come out the other end . |
| 24 | No one follows , so I come out the other end and nip round the small block . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I |
| 26 | I pull round the next document on the Treasury tag . |
| 27 | I pull back the candlewick bedspread and lie on my back with my manuscript . |
| 28 | But I plan over the next year to completely renew my rig ; there are just too many hip new things . |
| 29 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 30 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |