Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
| 2 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 3 | If I round up all these criminals and trouble-makers , no one will say , ‘ What a clever man is Colonel Stok to grab these people before they could cause our country trouble . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry to interrupt , ’ they say politely on the phone , and I sit up straighter and always feel guilty . |
| 5 | ‘ So what are you suggesting : that I make up some nice little story ? |
| 6 | And I make up this |
| 7 | I pick up all the casualties . |
| 8 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 9 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 10 | I pick up some strange things , ’ she said , looking at him . |
| 11 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 12 | Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free . |
| 13 | You clearly think that you 're a piece of worthless rubbish , and if I pick up those vibes , then so do the blokes . |
| 14 | There is other gear : another pin , from which I pick out chunky flakes with my little finger , a zero Flexible Friend behind an expanding flake which , when I leave this stance an hour later , I will rip from its placement , and a wire which rattles uselessly in a flared crack . |
| 15 | I drag out another , half — full binbag which is already in there , cutting my thumb on a jutting piece of glass . |
| 16 | I warm up baked beans for the children 's |
| 17 | I single out three sections for special mention . |
| 18 | I dust down another box and put it on top of the one I am perching on , to bring it up to the height of a normal chair . |
| 19 | I squat down next to the little kid and point again . |
| 20 | The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope . |
| 21 | I cut up articulated lorries , rashly overtake , and dash through traffic lights when they 're more red than amber . |
| 22 | Maybe — I cut off that line of thinking . |
| 23 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
| 24 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 25 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 26 | It 's an old black and white photograph which I cut out many years ago from a now long defunct feature magazine . |
| 27 | I cut out all the short stories from nearly 100 magazines and pasted them into a collection of scrapbooks . |
| 28 | I cut out all me , in , eating in between |
| 29 | As soon as I cut out brown bread my stomach cramps went , and all my unpleasant bowel-related symptoms went also , as well as my headaches , sore tongue and dandruff . |
| 30 | Every second day I wash out this room — because it 's only lino . |