Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ?
2 so I had to go and put a thread on and put it in , it in another place
3 No leave your socks on , just take your trousers off , either leave your knickers on or take knickers off it 's up to you
4 He pulled the shirt on but made no effort to button it .
5 I 've only got to put a jumper on and get my bag .
6 it 's not like putting pennies on the table and counting them , put twelve pennies on and share them out between three people , no problem , but you put three pennies and share them out between twelve people .
7 What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat
8 They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty .
9 They should have got the solicitors in and said ‘ look you 've no rights to have been here , you walked on this common land without any permission at all , you built these places without you 've got cars park and everything ’ , and now I listen to the story where the council says they 're going to run it etc. etc and etc , well what the people want , they want it cleared up , they want it back to where it was , we do n't want somebody running another business out there , this is the idea of getting him off .
10 five or ten minutes late , it 's cheaper for me to put ten P in than to pay twelve pound ticket
11 The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds .
12 Visitors young and old let their hair down and enjoyed the entertainment , which ranged from clowns and bouncy castles to computer games and a disco .
13 But Christmas and new year is our time to let our hair down and sit our old traditional ballads .
14 I think you really ought to let your hair down and become one horny bitch !
15 Well , er at Christmas time and the new year time , we can let our hair down and sing the old traditional ballads , maybe
16 Robert patted his hair down and tried to formulate a few opening remarks .
17 A good remoisturising conditioner contains non-greasy oils to trap in the moisture without dragging the hair down and making it lank .
18 As you do it the third time , bend your fingers down and place them all under the band .
19 In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further .
20 She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy .
21 Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room .
22 Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately .
23 We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public .
24 Then , seemingly not in any hurry to state his business and be away , he put his briefcase down and queried , ‘ But you are expecting someone tonight ? ’
25 He put the guitar down and went on with his story .
26 It is important to write these plans down and to keep them under review .
27 Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing .
28 But a crane uprooted four after cops hauled the climbers down and arrested one .
29 In Kinvig v Holland Hannen & Cubbitts [ 1977 ] CLY 373 an interesting situation arose because the plaintiff failed to beat a payment in but had his damages increased on appeal , although still not so as to bear the amount that the defendant had paid into court .
30 ( 1 ) Where the whole amount is paid to the plaintiff ( including interest to payment in if claimed ) the action is stayed save as to costs , or where an order for payment out is required , or where hospital expenses are claimed ( Ord 11 , rr 2(1) , 4 and 6 ) .
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