Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
2 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
3 | Did they try and drag you up the farm yesterday ? |
4 | Your mom 's gone and thrown her down the incinerator . |
5 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |