Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 2 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 3 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 4 | she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this |
| 5 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 6 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 7 | Because she , she goes in off the deep end and you |
| 8 | Mum , I do n't want that one then she goes back on the three , goes , yeah ? |
| 9 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 10 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 11 | One evening soon after , she goes out to the pig yard and hurls defiance against the Almighty : ‘ Go on , call me a hog ! |
| 12 | And she goes out into the street and she pulls her skirt up . |
| 13 | Sh and she really , and she makes me laugh when she said , talking to someone and when they start working again she turns round to the next person at the other side of her ! |
| 14 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 15 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 16 | Taken from her monthly BBC Radio ‘ Woman 's Hour ’ series and culminating as she flies over for the opening night of ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ . |
| 17 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 18 | She quavers along with the congregation and is all rapt attention when the vicar does his bit . |
| 19 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 20 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 21 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 23 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 24 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 25 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 26 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 27 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 28 | She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours . |
| 29 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 30 | Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony . |