Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago . |
| 4 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 5 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 6 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 7 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 8 | I said I 'd bought it off a bloke in The Roebuck . |
| 9 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 10 | But you see what he 'd done he 'd , he 'd had it out a freezer since four o'clock since he come in |
| 11 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 12 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 13 | She had a thick brown walking-stick in her right hand and she 'd hooked it around a handle on the door-frame . |
| 14 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 15 | She turned right into the High Street then jumped from the cycle and began pushing it up an alleyway on her left which led into the stables cum car park at the rear of the Berkeley Chase Hotel . |
| 16 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 17 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
| 18 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 19 | Turning her round , he began propelling her back the way she 'd come . |
| 20 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 21 | It was when Izzie began to make him up a mattress to sleep on that he said , ‘ Well , just tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Honey , ’ he said , without thinking , ‘ it 's time you started to live it up a bit . ’ |
| 24 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 25 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 26 | But as they went to pick her up an Embassy limo intervened … ’ |
| 27 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |
| 28 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 29 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 30 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |