Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free . |
2 | I dust down another box and put it on top of the one I am perching on , to bring it up to the height of a normal chair . |
3 | The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope . |
4 | Maybe — I cut off that line of thinking . |
5 | Every second day I wash out this room — because it 's only lino . |
6 | The day after she came I put up another roll of chicken wire . ’ |
7 | Cor blimey , I put up another spell . |
8 | I just do n't see how they can waste that money , but there you are , I said that one day , I , I put down that fact today |
9 | I put down more concentration |
10 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
11 | Miss Honey , with one hand on the gate which she had not yet opened , turned to Matilda and said , ‘ A poet called Dylan Thomas once wrote some lines that I think of every time I walk up this path . ’ |
12 | ‘ I feel — ’ she hesitated , looking round — ‘ I do n't know , frightened , when I look round this house . |
13 | and they 're saying well why go to school , because if I go I give up that income , half goes to mum |
14 | Before , however , I examine in more detail my own personal views on this subject I would like to set them against the background of alternative approaches . |
15 | I get up each morning and dust off my wits |
16 | The sooner I get off this Street and onto the box the better . |
17 | I wake up each night worrying about it . |
18 | Erm I find out this afternoon when I phone in my hours |
19 | You ca n't concentrate on the music because you 're thinking , ‘ Okay , I turn off this button , then I have to press this thing , pull out the cord … ’ and then the tech hands me the guitar … |
20 | unless I go up that shop , top shop and have a look at those gramme balls , yellow , oranges |
21 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
22 | With a wry smile she added , ‘ They 'll fink I 'm a Bolshevik when I go down that Council on Monday mornin' . ’ |
23 | I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops . |
24 | I know the station 's on one side , cos there 's light coming from there , so I go back that way . |
25 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
26 | I have a special calendar , and I cross off each day when I go to bed , and then I lie there and think of you . |
27 | Perhaps later , if I come back this way . ’ |
28 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
29 | But before I take up that theme let me try to get closer to the ground . |
30 | He misses a risky plant , I take on some banana , and win on the pink . |