Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it in order for them to continue clearly to deceive the House , when the chairman of Ford of Britain has said that their policies amount to economic suicide ? |
| 2 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 3 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 4 | ‘ I 'ad ter spin the geezer a tale that I was usin' it ter move a poor family out o' the buildin 's where I live . ’ |
| 5 | Well I mean either borrowing the money I 'm afraid |
| 6 | Yeah I mean just getting the keynote speech from each one would be nice would n't it . |
| 7 | And particularly I mean just signing the V Os , because if it 's cocked up , the question 's been asked of me . |
| 8 | yeah I mean okay cover the languages to show how they did it properly , so if there is something else you want to bring in then that would be good . |
| 9 | I mean fortunately doing the maths |
| 10 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 11 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 12 | I devoted my twenties to my family but I intend now to achieve the career that I never had before . |
| 13 | We complete if five degrees nose-down , still hammering along at 250 knots , but I push harder to increase the speed to 3400 , brace my stomach , and ease back until the g-meter reads a steady four . |
| 14 | I moved slowly letting the two dead men slide under me . |
| 15 | ‘ My partner made the original booking , I know , under our company name , and I phoned yesterday to confirm the apartment . |
| 16 | I stopped outside Quirke the Butcher 's , and noticed with surprise that all the joints of meat were made of wood . |
| 17 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 18 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 19 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 20 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 21 | Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball |
| 22 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 25 | Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story . |
| 26 | I 'd rather got the impression that you were coming round to quite enjoying working for me . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd rather had the people I can survive with one person , one person down |
| 28 | Her leaning presence was deliberate , challenging : I think I 'd even felt the play of her breath on my neck . |
| 29 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd best fetch the smaller basket , ’ she said , ‘ on account of your condition , begging yer pardon , ma'am . ’ |