Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 2 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 3 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 4 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 5 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 6 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 7 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 8 | They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up . |
| 9 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 10 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 11 | Welcome along to the show then , going Italian tonight er , do n't know if we 've got any Italian music planned for you , erm but we 'll wait and see shall we ? |
| 12 | He saw the blond man he had wounded , Hugh they called him , walk over to the bush where the sack was . |
| 13 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 14 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 15 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 16 | cover up off the floor please so I can get near the back door ? |
| 17 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 18 | And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are . |
| 19 | The ripples spread out from the point where the stone is dropped and can affect a great area of the pond and perhaps even the whole of it . |
| 20 | erm , you have , I have n't , and erm , there was a photograph that I cut out of the paper sometime before he abdicated , over the Prince of Wales at the races with Mrs Simpson . |
| 21 | Oh I walk out of the room now . |
| 22 | Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through . |
| 23 | if I hang on to that and put it away in the garage and hang on to the key so I can get the right , the right lock |
| 24 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 25 | Drop in at the Club later and exchange notes . ’ |
| 26 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 27 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 28 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 29 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |
| 30 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |