Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
2 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
3 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
4 For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
5 I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
6 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
7 Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room .
8 She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall .
9 They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines .
10 Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion .
11 ‘ I 'm black and blue from head to toe , ’ said Crawford then , ‘ I 've got eight pulled ligaments in my leg and bruises all over and , when I limp out of the theatre at night , these bloody bastards are walking up and down with signs saying ‘ English actors will be working next year — will you ? ’ .
12 I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots .
13 When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’
14 I report back to the hotel room , defeated .
15 I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform .
16 I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday .
17 ‘ Sometimes I 'm in such a tearing hurry I just grab a nappy and bottle on the run as I head out of the door . ’
18 No I nip over to the shop and get it from near .
19 And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’
20 I bend down to the coke .
21 ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’
22 As soon as I was out of sight of the school I cut up through the cottages and round the back of the school on to the path to Bourani .
23 I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones .
24 erm , you have , I have n't , and erm , there was a photograph that I cut out of the paper sometime before he abdicated , over the Prince of Wales at the races with Mrs Simpson .
25 And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are .
26 I put in between the n and s on fisherman 's .
27 ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’
28 The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance .
29 I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape .
30 I ease back with the gun so he has room to move .
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