Example sentences of "i [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 2 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 3 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 4 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 5 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 6 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 7 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 8 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 9 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 10 | Put me down the block ? |
| 11 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 13 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 14 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 15 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 16 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 17 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 18 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 19 | Can you just sign that for me down the bottom there ? |
| 20 | He shot me down the Spar shop at about ninety five miles an hour ! |
| 21 | But the fact that , in the face of the overpowering evidence against the addiction , he had finally managed to give up all that time ago , combined with the fact that the pain was in the shoulder blade and not the chest , had contributed to putting me off the scent . |
| 22 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 23 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 24 | And he put me off the |
| 25 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 26 | But PC Jobson , a policeman for seven years , said : ‘ This wo n't put me off the job . |
| 27 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 28 | ‘ Hand me up the other bottle . ’ |
| 29 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 30 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |