Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 3 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 4 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 5 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 6 | I went to Grosvenor Square and abused ‘ American Imperialists ’ , I got thumped about a bit on Troops Out demos , and I dutifully handed out time and money in support of ‘ the miners ' wives ’ . |
| 7 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 8 | I tend to dish out the red for man trouble , the blue for woman trouble , the yellow for baby trouble , and green for anything else . |
| 9 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 10 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 11 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 12 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 13 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 14 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 15 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 16 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 17 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 18 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 19 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 20 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 21 | I expect to rub out the new rail link under London , the national centre for wind-power , the cross-Channel terminus at King 's Cross and the Little Podlington by-pass . |
| 22 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 23 | I forget to breathe out every time I watch him . |
| 24 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 25 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 26 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 27 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 28 | I want to shut out the noise . |
| 29 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 30 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |