Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 2 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 3 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 4 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 5 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 6 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ It has surprised me how the British scene has kept up . |
| 8 | ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear … |
| 9 | and when Siegfried swears to marry and save Odette after she has told him how the wicked Von Rothbart turned her into a Swan ( Swan Lake , Act 11 ) . |
| 10 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 11 | Oh Gabriel , Gabriel , you 've got it completely the wrong way rou … ’ |
| 12 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 13 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 14 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 15 | Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way . |
| 16 | Often , this attitude had left him physically the worse for wear , but not mentally , for he managed to give even the vicious beatings a meaning by analysing his reactions and those of the guards without pride , certainly with no feeling of humiliation , nor indeed with bitterness . |
| 17 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 18 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 19 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 20 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |