Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 2 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 3 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
| 5 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 6 | I always play down the beauty of a model . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 8 | I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather . |
| 9 | I jump so hard I nearly fall off the board . |
| 10 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 11 | Someone please turn off the tap |
| 12 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 13 | I then cut out the neckline and sew in the usual way . |
| 14 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 15 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 16 | It was a silent and melancholy spot because of the darkness of the evergreens and the steep sides of the declivity which together shut out the sky . |
| 17 | personal characteristics are laughed at , family likenesses in the present generations are pointed out , even among the pigs and dogs which still wander around the village . |
| 18 | ‘ Homage to the Snakes which ever move around the Earth |
| 19 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 20 | These act as an unnatural fertilizer for algae which then use up the oxygen in the water during their rapid growth . |
| 21 | Those who blatantly slap down the enthusiasm and special achievement of young designers , painters , musicians , and other talented young people , often steal their ideas . |
| 22 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 23 | Oh no I hate it when than ha when that happens , you fucking pull off the corner and the top do n't come off . |
| 24 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Drivers who persistently drive over the limit should think how they would feel if a speeding motorist kills one of their loved ones . ’ |
| 26 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 27 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 28 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 29 | ‘ With friends , you do n't introduce yourself , there 's no need to ring and say ‘ It 's Tessa here ’ , you just pick up the phone and wail : ‘ I threw up last night , ’ or ‘ I ca n't stand it , he has n't called . ’ |
| 30 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |