Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 3 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 4 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 5 | Obviously I bring out the worst in him . ’ |
| 6 | they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one . |
| 7 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 8 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 9 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 10 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 11 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 12 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 13 | I put on the cockney something rotten . |
| 14 | I put down the empty can . |
| 15 | I walk round the rocky coast , clambering over many walls , and am baited by three small boys . |
| 16 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 17 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 18 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 19 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 20 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 21 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 22 | Whatever the outcome , the liaison needs of the Branch Committee can not be ignored and so I hope over the next three years that this can be improved to enable a transition through which active liaison is maintained . |
| 23 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 24 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 25 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 28 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 29 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 30 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |