Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 32 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 33 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 34 | Well can Clay take me up the bingo ? |
| 35 | It is n't the money because the insurance company pay me back the money |
| 36 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 37 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 38 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 39 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 40 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 41 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 42 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 43 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I had murder with [ my GP ] ‘ cos , when I went , I was in a bad way and me mam took me up the doctor 's and he just said : ‘ I wo n't give you methadone . |
| 46 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 47 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 48 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 49 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | And he put me off the |
| 52 | ‘ Well , reasonably so , I suppose , but after the meal , not after he gave me back the hat . |
| 53 | Can you get me out the |
| 54 | I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’ |
| 55 | But PC Jobson , a policeman for seven years , said : ‘ This wo n't put me off the job . |
| 56 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 57 | But the fact that , in the face of the overpowering evidence against the addiction , he had finally managed to give up all that time ago , combined with the fact that the pain was in the shoulder blade and not the chest , had contributed to putting me off the scent . |
| 58 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 59 | He shot me down the Spar shop at about ninety five miles an hour ! |
| 60 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |