Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the kitchen " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 2 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 3 | " And I suppose you 're going to slip out the kitchen door , " she continued , " which you might be able to do if you time it right and both Mrs James and Mr Gerard are distracted but how are you going to bet back in ? " |
| 4 | Now I get up and walk around the kitchen table a couple of times , do a dozen stretch-and-bend exercises , then pour myself some more coffee and flop back in my chair . |
| 5 | The sun-and-moon chart hangs on the kitchen cupboard , where we can consult it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm training it to grow along the kitchen wall , and the flowers already hang over the kitchen 's picture window . |
| 7 | Confused by her rebellious attitude , David himself had cleaned up the kitchen behind his stepfather , and so the pattern was set . |
| 8 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ I thought , ‘ to have marched all night , then someone blows up the kitchen ! ’ |
| 9 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 10 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 11 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't forget we 're going to Appleby tomorrow , ’ Elinor said as we tidied up the kitchen . |
| 13 | She then told me what she said she had already told the police and that there was no harm in telling me , to wit that Froggy had given her nearly two thousand quid to do up the kitchen and bathroom . ’ |
| 14 | I if you ca n't stand the heat , you get out the kitchen . |
| 15 | But er I , I do n't want get out the kitchen , I want to keep cooking boys . |
| 16 | This suited Zephyr ; she immediately checked out the kitchen area . |
| 17 | He switched off the kitchen light on his way out . |
| 18 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 19 | And part of it is discipline — you know , making your room up and one day you clean the porch , one day you sweep down the kitchen … you have different duties every day . |
| 20 | ‘ Go down the kitchen and find a couple of glasses . |
| 21 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 22 | I looked out the kitchen window and there he was , standing at the back gate with a bunch of red roses in his hand . ’ |
| 23 | I want no policemen hanging about the kitchen . ’ |
| 24 | There 's more light , Harriet has switched on the kitchen light . |
| 25 | She almost staggered back to the kitchen table and sat down and as she did so the kitchen clock struck nine . |
| 26 | And I think not the kitchen , that 's on the rising main . |
| 27 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 28 | We act cool , like we 're not delighted to meet up again , then we sit round the kitchen table and talk . |
| 29 | Three huge blacks sit round the kitchen table , skimming the pages of my magazines , and the pasty-coloured Lump Number Two lies on his belly on the floor . |
| 30 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |