Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And I back up the line I had to go .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 I bring up the subject of music .
4 Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover .
5 ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’
6 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 .
7 I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it .
8 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 .
9 I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy .
10 go I pick up the accent .
11 I pick up the phone .
12 I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office .
13 I pick up the bike and return it to the shed .
14 Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six .
15 I pick up the gun and pocket it .
16 I pick up the receiver .
17 I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
18 I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet .
19 I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home .
20 It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike .
21 In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket .
22 When I peer along the track I see that it will be on the track across from me , going south to the river .
23 The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver .
24 Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ?
25 I slit along the seam of the cardboard wrapper where it had been taped over .
26 I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer .
27 At last I stumble off the path into complete darkness .
28 I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing .
29 I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek .
30 I cut out the caption and stuck it on the cover of my French notebook .
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