Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | My God , George thought , cringing , he wants me to kill off more of that fossilised brain . |
2 | So I lent out some of his books , and they straight away came back and said , ‘ He 's not Irish , he 's Scottish . ’ |
3 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
4 | Actually I checked out all about |
5 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
6 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
7 | I found out all about it . |
8 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
9 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
10 | Since most sound idyllic , I seek out those with that little extra something . |
11 | I suspect that as I map out some of those tendencies they will sound familiar to many people , for in some respects the distinction between light-greens and dark-greens is a mirror image of the distinction between animal welfare activists and animal rights activists . |
12 | I dug out some of the wet land and a local man put down a crushed stone track in four days , so we can now drive from the main road almost to the front door . |
13 | When I knew we were going to talk , I dug out some of my old history books . |
14 | In Chapter Four I set Out some of the reasons why conferences and other big events are held . |
15 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
16 | I puzzled over this for a week or so , before a second whisper clarified the message . |
17 | ‘ I feel in more of a muddle about politics every moment . ’ |
18 | round to , I took round some of my games to play . |
19 | I took out some of the bread and cold meat roll I had brought as my supper . |
20 | ‘ I sat up all through the flight putting it together . |
21 | And , and probably you pick up some of the language used to describe this , you know . |
22 | Then she read out more of the article . |
23 | Realizing that her tea was going cold , she gulped down half of it . |
24 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
25 | She turned over some of the stock . |
26 | I do n't want you to wipe out any of my debts — on the contrary . |
27 | If you exercise more , you use up more of the energy from your food , so reducing your chances of putting on any additional weight . |
28 | Besides her other duties she took over some of the maths teaching . |
29 | And erm and she kept doing this for ages and erm she was , she was sta starting to get worried because people might believe , find out that it was her and so after she killed a cow , she took out all of i , all it 's insides and hid in it and no one ever found her ! |
30 | If you carry out any of your beachcombing along England 's east coast ( Hull–Harwich ) , make sure you carefully examine pieces of yellowish glass that catch your eye as you wander on the foreshore . |