Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
2 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
3 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
4 | Sadly , most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball . |
5 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
6 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
7 | ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’ |
8 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
9 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
10 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
11 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
12 | So I hope to sort it out the Lenten appeal well |
13 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
14 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
15 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
16 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
17 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |
18 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
19 | A gentle breeze helped nudge us up the first incline — then the next , and the next , before we reached a tricky scramble round a rocky peak . |
20 | ‘ She 's going to pay you back the loan at the end of the week . ’ |
21 | Do you think you 've got to have it down the edge there , have n't you ? |
22 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
23 | Got to take them out the root . |
24 | What is it like to have a very quick labour , when instead of the agonising hours in the delivery room , you 're not sure you 're going to make it up the hospital steps ? |
25 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
26 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
27 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
28 | Turning her round , he began propelling her back the way she 'd come . |
29 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
30 | For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch . |