Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 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 .
24 It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole .
25 I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P .
26 Can I have mine out the tub ?
27 ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night .
28 Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ?
29 ‘ I mean , when I saw him down the prom he did n't look the type at all — smart , respectable-looking lad . ’
30 I saw him down the bus station this morning .
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