Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
2 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
3 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ Andy says , coming to stand near me and look out over the water . |
4 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
5 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
6 | At any minute they would see the two horses and they would mount them and ride on down the road and all would be well . |
7 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
8 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
9 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
10 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
11 | It 's best with anything like that to dismiss it and get on with the game , ’ said Richardson , whose team were playing their opening tour match against an Australian Cricket Board XI in Perth today . |
12 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
13 | Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything . |
14 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
15 | ‘ I used to walk past it and peep in through the windows and think how much I 'd love to live there , ’ she confesses . |
16 | I stand in front of it and look up at the lights . |
17 | There is a row of stout wooden rods supporting a handrail which runs along the edge of the gallery , allowing the adventurers to lean on it and look down into the Black Pit ( which they wo n't immediately be able to see , of course ) . |