Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 2 | This makes time appear to slow down so that we remember the details of an accident , such as a car crash , as though it occurred in slow motion . |
| 3 | Bring them in so that they share the unpopularity but do n't give them enough power to change anything . ’ |
| 4 | Gambo began to jump up and down excitedly as he watched the projectile arc towards the massing foe . |
| 5 | Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again . |
| 6 | , was you was down here when I washed the caravan ? |
| 7 | She looked even more head-mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . |
| 8 | We used to pass sweets and things to some of the girls down there if we passed the windows . |
| 9 | Cos I mean if he keeps rushing down there and you got the greenhouse there he 's gon na go through that ! |
| 10 | The kiss grew stronger and wilder , and he rolled over so that he covered the length of her . |
| 11 | You know his son took over shortly after I joined the company . |
| 12 | I have followed it through closely because it shows the kind of diplomacy which , though no comparable evidence survives , has to be assumed for subsequent relations between Charles and his brothers ( and later his nephews ) throughout his reign . |
| 13 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 14 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 15 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 16 | United 's game at Newcastle was rained off yesterday but they did the business against Bristol City on saturday |
| 17 | said he was off yesterday cos he had the flu |
| 18 | This assumption appears to be one that children take to heart very early , and rely on extensively as they acquire the meanings of their first language . |
| 19 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 20 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 21 | Yeah , but you 're not pointing the pen down , hold the pen up so that it makes the line |
| 22 | He looked up desperately as he saw the other assassin now approach , his dagger raised , waiting to strike . |
| 23 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 24 | He 'd put his elbow up slightly as he took the bag from her because sometimes she would clout him with it . |
| 25 | Hatch looked up sharply as he placed the box of shrubs on the side . |
| 26 | Short looked up angrily as he remembered the events of that day . |
| 27 | " Then , " said Dandelion , " Frith felt himself in friendship with El-ahrairah , because of his resourcefulness , and because he would not give up even when he thought the fox and the weasel were coming . |
| 28 | It 's vitally important that when you 're doing it I 'll do it up here that you have the dots , you have the spacing , you have the correct number of lines underneath , you have the accidentals , you have the accents , you have the phrase mark and so on . |
| 29 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 30 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |