Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 32 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 33 | Gary wants me to find out a bit more about it cos he wants a new one , another , well he wants a new one , cos we done a deal , get my bed , if we get the bedroom done |
| 34 | They want me to write out the stuff . |
| 35 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 36 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 37 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 38 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 39 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 40 | Previous experience of using visually stimulating material , encouragement to do so , interest in the task in hand , curiosity and enjoyment seem to play a part in the way that some pupils use even low levels of vision to help them to find out the things they are interested in . |
| 41 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 42 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 43 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 44 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 45 | In Chapter 14 I sketch out the fundamentals of a structuralist theory of truth . |
| 46 | I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat . |
| 47 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 50 | Back in the bathroom , so I turns down the bed , and goes . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 53 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 54 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 55 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 56 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 57 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 58 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 59 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 60 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |