Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I write one digit per second , how long will it take me to write out all the numbers from 1 up to 1991 ? |
| 2 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |
| 3 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 4 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 5 | I pick up all the casualties . |
| 6 | Cos I found out that the hard way . |
| 7 | ‘ But then I found out all the others were too — Barbra Streisand and Gene Kelly , the director , ’ he said . |
| 8 | And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it . |
| 9 | I cut out all the short stories from nearly 100 magazines and pasted them into a collection of scrapbooks . |
| 10 | it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been |
| 11 | I walk up all the escalators I come across . |
| 12 | ‘ Every leave I tie up all the letters I 've had since Stan 's last , then start again when he goes back , ’ she said . |
| 13 | These kids was coming at us once and six of them grabbed hold of me and when I turned round all the others had fucked off and left me to get a kicking … |
| 14 | Knew we 'd have to do the old ones , so I dug out all the figures of the last two years ’ productions . ’ |
| 15 | I walked back all the way from Fleet Street to Radnor Walk , which took a while … ’ |
| 16 | " Mum works the day shift , Dad works the night shift and I fill up all the gaps . |
| 17 | With a shilling guidebook that was woefully inaccurate in its measurement of distances but was the only one then available , I hunted down all the hundred holes then known ( today there are thousands ) ; it was not an easy task because many have concealed entrances , but great fun . |
| 18 | I counted up all the unbroken sticks of pastel and you cunning so-and-sos had put twice the number of pieces of blue there to catch us out . |
| 19 | I thought out all the sex facts . |
| 20 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 21 | I went round all the departments at WTN , asking for support . |
| 22 | I went round all the classes |
| 23 | ‘ Father left me a bit and she thinks I went through that a long time ago . |
| 24 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 25 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 26 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 27 | I went in to see the cats and then I swept up all the mess |
| 28 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a bit like blackmail , especially the part which points out all the money raised would be spent in their hospital . ’ |
| 30 | There are recordings which back up such an assessment — principally the comparative versions listed above . |