Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they enter lakes , their sensitivity to the slightest movement in the water enables them to swim straight through into the feeder rivers . |
| 2 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 3 | Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market . |
| 4 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 5 | But no wh what I 'm , when I said borne out later on I mean later on in the report |
| 6 | I sit back down on the bench and sort of snuggle into my coat to try and keep warm . |
| 7 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 8 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 9 | I wandered back up to the station concourse . |
| 10 | Allan Scuffle ( or scuffling Allan ) gave me a frank grin and handshake , and I wandered back down to the Liffey . |
| 11 | When I woke up back in the war , I could feel the difference at once . |
| 12 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 13 | Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . " |
| 14 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 15 | I walk right up to the end of the platform . |
| 16 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 17 | I walk back up to the top gate . |
| 18 | I walk out on to the great parade-ground beyond , where the grandstands left over from Trooping the Colour are still displacing the more usual arrangements for Trooping the Parked Cars . |
| 19 | Nellie and I tiptoed quietly back down the aisle and out of the door . |
| 20 | When I climb back up to the pueblo there 's a meeting in progress . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes I run out on to the pitch with an erection , I 'm so excited . ’ |
| 22 | From the tower I climbed carefully down to the causeway and walked amid screeching seabirds to the end of the island , where the foaming water was groaning and pounding dramatically into a wide gash in the rock , known as the Blow Hole . |
| 23 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 24 | Davis and I climbed back up to the road together . |
| 25 | When Gray and Mr Trelawney were helping the captain , I climbed quickly out of the stockade and ran into the trees . |
| 26 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 27 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 28 | I walked slowly back to the hotel . |
| 29 | A little while later , I walked slowly out of the house . |
| 30 | Then I walked fast on to the dark lonely marshes . |