Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 3 | In view of the central position of the egg and sperm cell in reproductive biology , we need to look at them in a little more detail . |
| 4 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 5 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 6 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 7 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 8 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 9 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 10 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 11 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 12 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 13 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 14 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 15 | No , take them down a bit |
| 16 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 17 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 18 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 19 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 20 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 23 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 24 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 25 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 26 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 27 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 28 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 29 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 30 | 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 . |