Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 2 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 3 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 4 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 5 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 6 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 7 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 8 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 9 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 10 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 11 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 12 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 13 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 14 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 15 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm black and blue from head to toe , ’ said Crawford then , ‘ I 've got eight pulled ligaments in my leg and bruises all over and , when I limp out of the theatre at night , these bloody bastards are walking up and down with signs saying ‘ English actors will be working next year — will you ? ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 18 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 19 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 20 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 21 | I report back to the hotel room , defeated . |
| 22 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 23 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 24 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’ |
| 26 | No I nip over to the shop and get it from near . |
| 27 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 28 | I bend down to the coke . |
| 29 | ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as I was out of sight of the school I cut up through the cottages and round the back of the school on to the path to Bourani . |