Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've come and I 've took my boots off and poured the bloody rain out . |
| 32 | Now bring the throttle all the way back and maintain the five per cent glide . |
| 33 | Crowther clawed his way back and clinched the fifth . |
| 34 | They were therefore accused of putting the clock back and bringing the best hope of Christendom to an impasse . |
| 35 | Starring at the County Ground tomorrow is Kenny Dalglish and his Blackburn team … his very first match as Rovers manager was at Swindon … both clubs have gone up in the world since then but what Town would give to turn the clock back and have the same scoreline again … 2-1 it was to swindon Chalky White and Colin Calderwood got the Town goals … |
| 36 | At one gig in Cork they were so skint they could n't afford to buy beer , and instead took the crusty way out and raided the local mixture . |
| 37 | Some writers , according to Janssen-Jurreit , turned Grimm 's thesis around and took the grammatical gender of a word as evidence of whether what it denoted was masculine or feminine . |
| 38 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 39 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 40 | The Doctor perched on the edge of the table , took his hat off and batted the buzzing drone away into a distant corner . |
| 41 | Using traditional methods ( ie. pencil and paper ) , I suppose I could easily have got the scissors out and done the same job . |