Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 2 | see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we |
| 3 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 4 | The corporal and the airmen first put on some trousers and literally threw themselves down the brae to meet the girls . |
| 5 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 6 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 7 | Grant brought up the rear , using his arms only to haul himself up the rope . |
| 8 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 9 | I mean , she coped nicely because , providing we maintain a breeding stock of horses , cows and sheep , we can perhaps help you out a little bit more on that if you could erm , help us some more on the timber . |
| 10 | Yeah , and if he becomes just an auto run it could just knock him back a bit , one of the crowd , you know , just another one |
| 11 | Just push it up the bum . |
| 12 | If necessary , use a padsaw to free the disc , but be careful not to lose it down the stack . |
| 13 | You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’ |
| 14 | Well you just got it out the cupboard did n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Not to say pay her , I just helped her out a bit . |
| 16 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 17 | Shall I just give you out a load and |
| 18 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 19 | we 'll just send them back the problem and send fully stamped |
| 20 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 21 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 22 | ‘ So I said , ‘ Okay , if we 're going to do this again , just drop everything down a f***ing third and let's get rocking again . |
| 23 | Just to spice it up a bit . |
| 24 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 25 | Well , just wrap me up a couple then and I 'll put . |
| 26 | He just cleans them up every time he comes out , either |
| 27 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 28 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 29 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 30 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |