Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 32 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 35 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
| 36 | I choked back the tears and mumbled that I was glad I 'd had cancer . |
| 37 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 38 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 39 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 40 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 41 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 42 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 43 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 44 | I fought off the duvet and padded to the door , grabbing a towel from the bathroom to wrap around my waist and avoiding a cunning ankle-tap trip-and-throw move from Springsteen . |
| 45 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 46 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 47 | I bring up the others , cooling all the while , before we flounder over to the descent rake and back to the house . |
| 48 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 49 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 50 | Obviously I bring out the worst in him . ’ |
| 51 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 52 | they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one . |
| 53 | The worst hazard of standing in that crowd was someone pissing down the back of your leg . ’ |
| 54 | And then I goes up the shute . |
| 55 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 56 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 57 | On the day after my arrival at Bletchley , I heard a Scottish voice and , being a little homesick , I sought out the owner . |
| 58 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 59 | ‘ And needed someone to carry on the family name and the title , to stop any distant relative from — ’ |
| 60 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |