Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 3 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 4 | He seemed to like it just the way it was . |
| 5 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 6 | With hindsight , it 's clear that I was too single-minded about racing , too immersed , and that if I 'd paced myself better the joy would have lasted much longer . ’ |
| 7 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd asked me nearer the time … ’ |
| 9 | the fear she 'd lost him not the lack of doubt |
| 10 | He turned to help her clear the table . |
| 11 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
| 12 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
| 13 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 14 | Turning her round , he began propelling her back the way she 'd come . |
| 15 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 16 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 17 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 18 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 19 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 20 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 21 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 22 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 23 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 24 | Colt had known the driver for eleven months , and he knew he was good because the Colonel had told him how the driver had once handled an ambush . |
| 25 | Using the magnifying glass he had found in the left-hand drawer , Ben had shown her how the print of the reflected newspaper was subtly different from the one the man held . |
| 26 | He had shown her how the frontispiece illustration was the key to it . |
| 27 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 28 | Well Zoe said tell me up the school |
| 29 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 30 | 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 . |