Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 2 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 3 | I 'd better try to tidy my desk up a bit . ’ |
| 4 | If I muck up a serve I 'm off . |
| 5 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 6 | Take Ian Woosnam , who , if I turn my notebook back a week , I find saying such things as : ‘ I am not in the groove at all . |
| 7 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 8 | I appreciate I should n't be spending my time up a ladder , |
| 9 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 10 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 11 | They liked watching her play out a Cinderella fantasy , wearing gold lamé and riding in a gold-plated carriage to a ball from which she did not return until well after midnight . |
| 12 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
| 13 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |
| 14 | She is threatening to sue Mr Peter Owen , BA director of operations , unless he retracts a claim that the offer of her job back a ‘ second chance . ’ . |
| 15 | Blanche pushed her chair back a couple of paces . |
| 16 | She turned the pages quickly , ran her finger down a column , and said , ‘ Ah , Ian Woodall , qualified London the same year as Robert Sheldrake . |
| 17 | She forced her voice down an octave . |
| 18 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's making it all up , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she ca n't help it , she 's had no family life and it 's held her brain back a bit . |
| 20 | There were lots of people in plastic rain hoods puffing their way up a huge , cobbled stairway , complaining at how wide apart the steps had been laid . |
| 21 | INSURANCE was the furthest thing from Pat Whyte 's mind as she edged her way down an Austrian ski slope . |
| 22 | Stopping to pick up her mail from the box on her way out a few days later , she noticed the white envelope with the Andorran postmark straight away . |
| 23 | After scouring through several reports , he ran his forefinger down a column of figures and discovered the facts behind the old woman 's plight : commodity prices are plunging . |
| 24 | cut his card up a bit more . |
| 25 | Lawrence I think gave his handkerchief to turned his nose up a little and stuffed it into his left pocket . |
| 26 | Stephen and Christina led the PM and his wife down a flight of white marble steps and across the piazza to the marquee on the lawn . |
| 27 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 28 | What fans did n't see was special effects boss Derek Meddings on the floor with his hand up her dress to keep it from ruffling up and his assistant up a ladder holding the tension on a piece of fish wire while the zip was being pulled down . |
| 29 | Pleased to make your acquaintance , I 'm sure , ’ said Bob Makins , rubbing his palm down a green apron before shaking his new master 's outstretched hand . |
| 30 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |