Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 2 | They want me to write out the stuff . |
| 3 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 4 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 5 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 6 | Back in the bathroom , so I turns down the bed , and goes . ’ |
| 7 | Now it would maybe not be appropriate if there was to be an alternative government bill that would deal with these type of matters er in front of us and please to say that when I read out the list of sponsors , it 'll be shown there are people from all parties , or all parties in Britain in this house , who are true democrats . |
| 8 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 9 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 10 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 12 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 13 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 14 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 15 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 16 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 17 | And then I goes up the shute . |
| 18 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 19 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 20 | On the day after my arrival at Bletchley , I heard a Scottish voice and , being a little homesick , I sought out the owner . |
| 21 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 22 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 23 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 24 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 25 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 26 | I pick up the phone . |
| 27 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 28 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 29 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 30 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |