Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 3 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 4 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 5 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 6 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 7 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 8 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 9 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 10 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 12 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 13 | I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen . |
| 14 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 15 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 16 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 17 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 18 | I pick up the phone . |
| 19 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 20 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 21 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 22 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |
| 23 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 24 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 25 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
| 26 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 27 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 28 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 29 | I peer round a stack of Hovis loaves and see Stewpid just entering the doors with Simon right behind him , no Jonathan though , slow-footed halfwit . |
| 30 | When I peer along the track I see that it will be on the track across from me , going south to the river . |