Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 8 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Turning her round , he began propelling her back the way she 'd come . |
| 12 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 13 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 14 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 15 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 16 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 19 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 20 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 21 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 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 | Oh I had to get something out the car as well you know ? |
| 27 | Well we had to drag them down the hall . |
| 28 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |