Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gloved hand — like a fat , black spider — delicately placed the telephone back in its cradle . |
| 2 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 3 | We 've all put the Worm down to a dusty old legend . |
| 4 | But Simon had never got beyond page 27 , and after that he had merely left the book out in case his mother and stepfather came unexpectedly for drinks . |
| 5 | And they had suddenly taken the dullness out of hers . |
| 6 | It sounded as if the thing downstairs had finally torn the cabinet out of its way . |
| 7 | It was n't something she 'd consciously considered before , just buried the memory along with all the others , but , thinking about it now , she knew he was right . |
| 8 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 9 | Something had just kicked the breath out of her body but no , nothing was wrong . |
| 10 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 11 | So she said I think that was damn rude she said she 's just slammed the phone down on Deborah and there 's really no need for that , well she said it 's private between me and Debbie , then we found out she got her a job |
| 12 | just taken the knife out of your back . |
| 13 | Bobo was in for a shock , however , for when he kicked open the door to Sam 's office , he discovered that the President had already taken the matter out of his hands , having blown his own brains out . |
| 14 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 15 | Fran felt as though someone had just knocked the breath out of her and fought to speak . |
| 16 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 17 | But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected . |
| 18 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 19 | Had anyone ever taken the mickey out of her because she looked untidy ? |
| 20 | The most informal interview will be one where the interviewer , having once started the interview off on the theme in which he is interested , allows the informant to dictate the subsequent situation . |
| 21 | excuse me but a ninety pound deal sort of like knocked the stuffing out of me for |
| 22 | And when they had accidentally found , the Master had sworn , and his cousin Meredith had deliberately headed the fox back to earth . |
| 23 | One who 'd probably mowed the nurses down in his student days , too , she thought with a flash of insight . |
| 24 | The government has also announced the setting up of a special commission to coordinate the activities of Russian ministries and organizations in protecting the ozone layer . |
| 25 | I 've also swapped the leads over on the two floppy drives to check that drive A is n't faulty , but the problem remains . |
| 26 | The computer program had automatically rounded the figure up to 5 per cent . |
| 27 | Germany has also resisted the setting up of a unified life assurance market . |
| 28 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 29 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 30 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |