Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
2 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
3 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
4 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
5 | I send you into the parallel continuum with orders to collect the final statue and do nothing more . |
6 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
7 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
8 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
9 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
10 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
11 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
12 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
13 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
14 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
15 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
16 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
17 | ‘ So you wo n't mind if I run you into the main data-net as Jezrael Brown , hey ? |
18 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
19 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
20 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |
21 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
22 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
23 | I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi . |
24 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
25 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
26 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
27 | ‘ I keep her under the white rock . |
28 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
29 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
30 | I thrust it towards the lashing chain . |