Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | order the parts and everything , so I went down a couple of days later I said just for curiosity what 's , what 's it gon na cost us this bloody lot ? |
| 2 | Said alright , so I filled out a bloody form and I went to Michelins , they knew nothing about it and they had n't got it displayed either ! |
| 3 | So I took out an insurance policy against a possible breakdown in the production . |
| 4 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 5 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 6 | So I put out an advert for a guitarist . |
| 7 | So I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out an eighty-thousand mortgage . ’ |
| 8 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 9 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
| 10 | So I take up a book and try to read . |
| 11 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
| 12 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 13 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 14 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 15 | Somehow I sat up a bit . |
| 16 | Thus I Broke Off a Golden Branch , which incorporates Croatian folk melody , begins by seducing the ear with warm string tone and lilting piano colouring which grows , the rhythms becoming tougher and more insistent , the emotional tension mounting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 19 | Obligingly I leaned back an additional inch or two into the firm and furry pillows . |
| 20 | Well I worked out a hundred and twenty here and seventy pound pension . |
| 21 | About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids . |
| 22 | A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil . |
| 23 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 24 | Then she yelled ‘ Beep ’ so loudly I ended up a yard away from our communal house phone which is nailed to the wall just inside the front door . |
| 25 | Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat . |
| 26 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 27 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 28 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 29 | I had some material and they said they would make it up into a Kamiz for me , so next time I went there I took along a garment that fitted me . |
| 30 | ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects . |