Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 3 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 5 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 6 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 7 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 8 | I went to Grosvenor Square and abused ‘ American Imperialists ’ , I got thumped about a bit on Troops Out demos , and I dutifully handed out time and money in support of ‘ the miners ' wives ’ . |
| 9 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 10 | I tend to dish out the red for man trouble , the blue for woman trouble , the yellow for baby trouble , and green for anything else . |
| 11 | Someone starts to wind up the pace . |
| 12 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 13 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 14 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 15 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 16 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 17 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 18 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 19 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 20 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 21 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 22 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 23 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 24 | I expect to rub out the new rail link under London , the national centre for wind-power , the cross-Channel terminus at King 's Cross and the Little Podlington by-pass . |
| 25 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 26 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 27 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 28 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 29 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 30 | I forget to breathe out every time I watch him . |