Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | I tried to explain then the basis on which we maintain contacts with the Palestinians . |
| 4 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 5 | While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen . |
| 6 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 7 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 9 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 10 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 11 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 12 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 13 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 14 | But the Scanachrome process introduces a linear scanning over the whole image , so I proposed to paint only the area of the TV screen and leave the scanning on everything that is n't TV . |
| 15 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 16 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 17 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 18 | I began to see how the literature I revered , the literature I loathed , behaved in its encounter with racial ideology . |
| 19 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 20 | I determined to stamp out the French ‘ flu before it spread . |
| 21 | To the right is one of several photocopies of the bride , complete in outline , on which I worked to sort out the background composition in more detail , especially the position of the patterned arch on the carpet backdrop , which corresponds with the curve of the headcloth material embroidery at the bottom left . |
| 22 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 23 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 24 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 25 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 26 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 27 | Because of the range of the respective sizes of each range and the feel of the marker pens themselves , I chose to try out the KC-1100 Twin Point Pens in a studio context and the KC-400 Brush Pens in the field . |
| 28 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 29 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 30 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |