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

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1 So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her .
2 So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment .
3 Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle .
4 Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row .
5 Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place .
6 I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better .
7 ‘ You let me out at the next corner .
8 Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’
9 Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward .
10 Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’
11 And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute .
12 ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy .
13 When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on .
14 I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’
15 ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked .
16 When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the
17 You could also play this with team members at both ends of the room so that Brownies only have to run one length and pass it on to the next Brownie and so on .
18 If you want to pick up some more , ring me back in the next twenty minutes .
19 Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally .
20 He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says
21 Insert needle again in stitch above and bring it out through the next stitch at the left ( Fig. 4 ) .
22 Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) .
23 Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said .
24 Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one .
25 ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested .
26 Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant .
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