Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody else said oh you should throw it down the sink but I did n't think you were supposed to do that either . |
| 2 | ‘ That reminds me , I must give you back the two pounds you sent me . |
| 3 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 4 | Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go . |
| 5 | Folly found herself curiously reluctant to look up , as if by meeting his eye she might give him back the power he held over her . |
| 6 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Send me a Capex and I 'll run it up the flagpole . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll see you down the front . |
| 9 | Well I mean , they might sell it down the shop but I never heard of it . |
| 10 | He a big man and if I say I 'm not well he says he 'll have it up the back then and … ’ and I said ‘ Well , you 'll just have to put a stopper in it then , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | I allow you to stay in my home because of Lizzy , but I warn you now , Dan , if you try and interfere in my life , I 'll have you out the front door so fast you 'll burn a hole in the carpet . |
| 12 | And then I 'll sell you down the galaxy , and you wo n't know her either . |
| 13 | I 'll just take the two , and Billy 'll take them out the next week . |
| 14 | No , I , I 'll , I 'll agree with that , and I think the players will agree with that , it 's not as though , it looks as though we 've got absolutely murdered again Saturday Mick , three nothing , as I said , it stops at me , and if they 're not going to do what I want them to do , then I 'll leave them out the team . |
| 15 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 16 | So I said to Geoff I 'll get it up the village shop . |
| 17 | And we 'll shoot him up the — , |
| 18 | ‘ If you want my advice , lovie , you 'll pop her down the Town Hall and find her a decent coat to wear . |
| 19 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 20 | Yeah , I 'll tell you what I did if I if that 's ladder 's out , I 'd drop it down the back of somewhere . |
| 21 | Think he 'd take it down the bottom would n't you ? |
| 22 | They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia . |
| 23 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 24 | He went there , he shook hands , he 'd shake hands with a vulture if he thought he could get him up the pedestal , but that 's neither here , something was done . |
| 25 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 26 | And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field ! |
| 27 | I bought it in village in Mark 's Wood I used to take it up the runway and |
| 28 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 29 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 30 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |