Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 5 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 6 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hurry up with the scissors Pauly . |
| 9 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 10 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 11 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What we try do and is actually sort of focus in on the branches so that so , to try and get try and get all the strains together . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | He saw the blond man he had wounded , Hugh they called him , walk over to the bush where the sack was . |
| 18 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 19 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | cover up off the floor please so I can get near the back door ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh I walk out of the room now . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 . |