Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
2 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
3 | And then I chucked it out the window . |
4 | I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge . |
5 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
6 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
7 | And I got one out the fridge . |
8 | Yeah , well when I got it out the car but , just wash that down |
9 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
10 | so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back . |
11 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
12 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |
13 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
14 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
15 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
16 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
17 | Next day I seen him down the transport club . |
18 | I give him back the open paper . |
19 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
20 | When next I chase you down the dunny , |
21 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
22 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
23 | If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything . |
24 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
25 | It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole . |
26 | I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P . |
27 | Can I have mine out the tub ? |
28 | ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night . |
29 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
30 | ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’ |