Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 3 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |