Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put the sack back and strewed some dead leaves over it . |
| 2 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 3 | I caught the Corporal up and pointed this out . |
| 4 | We do n't , we turned the valve off , we take a bunch of newspapers and put it on top of the bricks , then we light the newspaper , then we go back and turn the valve on and let this hundred octane mixture of oil drip on the bricks and it would burn . |
| 5 | They turned the telephone down and spent most of the evening at the cinema . |
| 6 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 7 | Every so often they 'd come down and they 'd take the bung out and put more water in . |
| 8 | I lay the rod down and spend another two or three minutes feeding maggots into the swim . |
| 9 | But the point is , if you tell them you 're leaving , why do n't they come and board the windows up and save all this money ? |
| 10 | Anywhere we were c clearing the river up because blocked that , one Summer day and it was very hot for about a month or so . |
| 11 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 12 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 13 | To keep the numbers down and add that missing element of sharpness . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe , when we 've found somewhere to live , we can send the Ship back and collect any other nomes we can find , ’ Masklin hazarded . |
| 15 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 16 | Well I do n't know yet , we 're trying to sort that one out , we 're trying to either put the load back or get another order to go with it . |
| 17 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 18 | We done it for Kerry and done it for her , Kerry left home sorted all the house out and bought all the stuff back and give the rest away ! |