Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a " 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 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 8 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 14 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 15 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 16 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 17 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 18 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 19 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 21 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 22 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 23 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 24 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 26 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 27 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 28 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 29 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 30 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |