Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 2 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Someone starts to wind up the pace . |
| 5 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 8 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 14 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 17 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 18 | I want to shut out the noise . |
| 19 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 20 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 21 | I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four . |
| 22 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | I want to finish off the letter now anyway . |
| 24 | So I can finish off the , I want to finish off the letter now . |
| 25 | Anyway I want to root out the priest . |
| 26 | I want to find out the truth . ’ |
| 27 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 28 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 29 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |