Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’ |
| 6 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 9 | So of course having pulled it out the the cord is attached with two very thick nails , and you can pull those nails out , and then get you leave go of the cord . |
| 10 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 11 | When Johnson , as we know he did , dipped into Boswell 's Hebrides Journal , its tone can not have put him off the notion of Boswell writing a Life . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have thought she 'd have put us out the servants ’ door . ’ |
| 13 | We could have poured it down the sink . |
| 14 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 15 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 16 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 17 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 18 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 19 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 20 | And then you 've got it back the way it was . |
| 21 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 22 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 23 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 24 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 25 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 26 | We 've dug it out the ground . |
| 27 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 28 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |