Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very gentle push , which Yanto did not believe was a serious attempt to stop him , so , as he swayed back against her , he tugged them down another inch . |
| 2 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 3 | Maybe I 'll write them down some day , if I get the chance . |
| 4 | When the region turned them down last summer , they began the opt-out move . |
| 5 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 6 | Why do n't you bring me down some day and somebody steal it |
| 7 | ‘ If you do n't let me down this instant , Mr Jacobsen , I 'll … ’ |
| 8 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 9 | and I , John 's put his up three times since . |
| 10 | You 're going that way Michael , put yours up that way one . |
| 11 | I 'll get in touch with the agriculture people and get them to send someone out first thing tomorrow . ’ |
| 12 | Well done Kieran he had already worked his out good boy . |
| 13 | There was a duty of mutual trust between his victims and him , the victims being elderly and he having done work for them over some years . |
| 14 | Richard said he 'd invite me over next time she came down for the weekend . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's asked me over next week again . |
| 16 | Came home in evening he says purposely to take me over next morn early . |
| 17 | He continued in this vein for a couple of minutes , tripping himself up several times . |
| 18 | He gave himself up this morning after eleven hours of negotiations with police . |
| 19 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 20 | I had one pissing me off all weekend . |
| 21 | This is what applied mathematics should be about ; not the fallacious misproofs of Stoke 's theorem or the relentless linearisation of the nonlinear that put me off applied mathematics for 15 years . |
| 22 | The stench and the bloody process we watched put me off tinned fish for many months . |
| 23 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 25 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 26 | I was fearful that I might find you down another alley . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I sponged you down this morning , child . |
| 28 | I 'll have to put you down some time . |
| 29 | Let me write you down some sums . |
| 30 | If the turn is large , it could take you off that QDM . |