Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood .
2 Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall .
3 I wrench the steering-wheel back from uncertainty and thrash on up the hill .
4 We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us .
5 I finish my tea and climb back into the Toyota .
6 Consultants say most children with cancer have a good chance of recovery , but this new service , costing £750,000 a year , aims to improve treatment and research and cut down on the time spent on the ward .
7 You hurriedly get out of your car and go round to the rear .
8 Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company .
9 And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there .
10 Shelley swallowed the lump in her throat and said hoarsely , trying to be businesslike , ‘ I 'll accept that , because I thought instead of flying home I 'd like to hire a car and drive up to the north — see something of the rest of the country . ’
11 Ross agreed gratefully , arranging to hire a car and drive out to the Hampton 's later on that afternoon .
12 I must collect my gear and check out of the hotel …
13 I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe .
14 Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards .
15 In some countries rebels make up their own military force and rise up against the government .
16 Change hands , push to where you were sitting , crouch in the middle of the boat and straighten up on the new course .
17 Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief .
18 Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course .
19 I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly .
20 Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon .
21 Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again .
22 ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’
23 Look , take this sovereign and go down to the station .
24 Use the map to get up to the ladder on the other side and climb out onto the platform , pick up a crate and kill the workman , now kill the green blob and complete the level by reaching the flag .
25 I then collect the grassbox and jog back to the front of the house where Pa is waiting .
26 Let us now leave the Great Russians of the Kursk guberniia and move out of the hills to the south of Nikol'skaia volost' .
27 So it 's very easy for bacteria , which are always present around the anus , to reach the usually bacteria-free urethra and travel up into the bladder where they multiply and irritate the bladder lining .
28 These are again flakes that can be lifted out of dry gravel and float off on the surface of the water .
29 And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up .
30 Sometimes , waking very early , she would tiptoe to the narrow window and look out across the harbour , half expecting to see a ship at anchor there , newly arrived from Portugal .
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