Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 2 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 3 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 4 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 5 | they sold them out the next morning , they 'd |
| 6 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 7 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 8 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 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 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 12 | You test it out the next morning is n't it interesting you remembered as proof of the pudding . |
| 13 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |
| 14 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 15 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 16 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
| 17 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 18 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 19 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 20 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 21 | We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community . |
| 22 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 23 | ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card . |
| 24 | I give him back the open paper . |
| 25 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 26 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 27 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 28 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 29 | Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way |
| 30 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |