Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 32 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 33 | And whatever each one chose I would go off and tell them the loveliest sort of |
| 34 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 35 | ‘ I wo n't march off and ask what the hell is going on because I know he will be acting in the best interests of the team . |
| 36 | He was shedding his wet things as he spoke , and a glance at me indicated who was supposed to hurry off and get him the hot drink . |
| 37 | Will the Foreign Secretary go a bit further and say what the attitude is of the British Government ? |
| 38 | It will provide spacious accommodation for the journey home and spare you the expense of my fare . ’ |
| 39 | He could walk right up and ask it the question that burned within him . |
| 40 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 41 | Who can put their hand up and tell me the next number ? |
| 42 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 43 | Cos I call on them everyday , I can pick the tools up and deliver them the next day . |
| 44 | As he fished , twisting his wrist back and forth , trying to get hold of more , a policeman came up and handed him the pile off the pavement . |
| 45 | So can you see it is vital that all of you keep your circulation going right and a good idea is to start it in bed so that before you get out and put weight on your limbs And the same with the rest of your body get your circulation going , get the joints doing a bit of movement and before you get up and give them the added job of bearing your weight . |
| 46 | I 'll go up and ask her the next day . |
| 47 | English scholars , all classicists or ex-classicists , hurried to catch up and prove themselves the equals of the Germans in philological and textual skill . |
| 48 | His father raised him up and gave him the kiss of peace . |
| 49 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |
| 50 | All the more important that you should choose wisely and know what the cost of any anticipated repairs will be . |
| 51 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 52 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 53 | When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said . |
| 54 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 55 | So why do n't you put an end to it here and now and tell me the truth ? |
| 56 | Er , and if your Lordship is happy to do that then I can open it now and indicate what the case is about and invite you to take some time . |
| 57 | But nobody come back and give us the go-ahead to do it . |
| 58 | But later he had come back and handed her the letter , the letter Adamus had typed , from the Scarabae . |
| 59 | No she 's looked under the M's and the fax but , I 'll have to have a word with Anthony when he comes back and see what the hell he 's playing at . |
| 60 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |