Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 've done that , go get all the other torches up there , bring them back and do the same . ’ |
| 2 | That 's why I put on the weight , I just stand there all day you see got a load them in and press the button that 's all I do all day , I do n't move ! |
| 3 | Painfully she straightened them out and healed the hand again . |
| 4 | It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo . |
| 5 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 6 | George invited me in and left the door open . |
| 7 | She realized she had missed an opportunity to needle Brian and went on , ‘ Tim says drop-outs are the fault of a cynical and uncompassionate administration who 're buggered if they 're going to waste good money on a load of lunatics , so they 've slung them out and turned the asylums into conference centres for advertising agencies . ’ |
| 8 | He probably wanted to pull them down and re-develop the site . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington . |
| 10 | She is patting Xanthe softly now , dreamily , and she stands her up and drops the nightdress with the rabbits over the little girl 's head , and turns her to fasten the top pearl button at the back . |
| 11 | I caught him up and tried a few more questions , but he 'd cut off communications . |
| 12 | Miranda reached to peck him back and felt the smooth skin on his chin , smelled the lotion he used on his hair ( not bay rum , not like her father , but a sweeter perfume , limewater and rose ) . |
| 13 | had to shake him up And make the fancy take him |
| 14 | He led her to the car , helped her in and started the engine . |
| 15 | It was as if someone had wound him up and released the key , like the spring of a watch . |
| 16 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 17 | ‘ She covers it up and tells the little girl it 's full of fairies and pretty make-believe so she must n't be scared , and she tells the boy it 's really there , dead , under the shawl . ’ |
| 18 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 19 | After the next fifty yards I drew it out and took a look at the bad news . |
| 20 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 21 | He snatched it up and tore the bronze ring from its wrist . |
| 22 | Aelis snatched it back and blew the ashes from it for him , blinking back tears . |
| 23 | It 's just a little gel that you put in the palm of your hand use some warm water and lather it up and put the lather over your face . |
| 24 | Then , immediately , brush one surface of each joint with a slightly stiffer mix , line them up and apply the pressure . |
| 25 | Most writers go through a series of fumbling stages , groping for ideas , before they manage to sort them out and develop an organized plan . |
| 26 | Shortly afterwards , the home side broke away for Shearer to be sent sprawling by Stejskal , before picking himself up and converting the spot kick . |
| 27 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |
| 28 | We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in . |
| 29 | Even when she had turned it over and seen the franked stamps she was childishly afraid . |
| 30 | I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly . |