Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 32 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 33 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 34 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 35 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 36 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 37 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 38 | So she said well I 'll change it she said because I tell you why , we send them back every , every so long , often . |
| 39 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 40 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 41 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 42 | Leaning through their window to sting the breasts of the sunning chorus girls with ammo from their pea-shooters in the morning : in the evening beer all round and trying to coax them up an alley . |
| 43 | Under the agreement the seven EFTA member countries would immediately abolish trade barriers on all goods covered except for certain sensitive products , while Czechoslovakia would abolish them over a 10-year period . |
| 44 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 45 | Shall we discuss them over a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 46 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 47 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 48 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 49 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 50 | ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me . |
| 51 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 52 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 53 | My mum helped me out a bit , but not everyone has parents who will help . |
| 54 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 55 | knocking them back a bit |
| 56 | Yeah , and he always writes me out a couple and I ai n't got the money . |
| 57 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 58 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 59 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 60 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |