Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 2 | I wandered back north towards the church . |
| 3 | I was rubbing the dusty ball of his hair against my cheek as I turned over papers on the desk . |
| 4 | He always yawns a lot and says Who ? in a bored voice when I pass on news from the Edwardian , but I suspect he 's interested . |
| 5 | Holmes , the violinist , you know … and I rang up Tom on the off-chance that he 'd like to come . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I looked up reports from the Continental police as requested , sir . ’ |
| 7 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 8 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 9 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 10 | I gave up men after the last time . |
| 11 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , during journeys to Palestine and to Egypt , I picked up copies of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding . |
| 13 | I have you pick up Mundi from the police station and deliver him to Heartbreak Hotel where he should have met with certain extinction . |
| 14 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 15 | In the breakfast room , wet ringletty hair dripping on the tablecloth , she read out headlines from the Galway papers that caught her fancy , and earned some dirty looks . |
| 16 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 17 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 18 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 19 | ‘ Time to go , ’ he said as she pulled out Newsweek from the others . |
| 20 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 21 | Did you go up Sunday to the shops ? |
| 22 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 23 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 24 | If you do well , some lenders will allow you to pay off part of the loan before the end of the original term — a huge bonus . |
| 25 | How many times have you switched on BBC2 on the weekend of a Major to hear Steve Ryder say , ‘ You join us here at Crooked Stick where American Brad Faxon leads the field ’ or ‘ And the surprise leader is the American ex-college champion Ted Schulz ’ ? |
| 26 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 27 | So she washed down Gabriel on the day he first played an angel . |
| 28 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 29 | Below her , she picked out Jessica on the concrete , scanning the upper deck , shielding her eyes . |
| 30 | However much you pile up facts about the world in order to support an ethical case , you can not get an ethical conclusion unless you take some ethical premiss for granted , in a way which usually just begs the question against those with whom you disagree . |