Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 3 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
| 4 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
| 5 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 6 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 7 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 8 | No , take them down a bit |
| 9 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 10 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 11 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 12 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 13 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 14 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 15 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 16 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 17 | Put them down the hole . |
| 18 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 19 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 20 | We 'll have to take them down the recycling . |
| 21 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 22 | Well we had to drag them down the hall . |
| 23 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 24 | And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field ! |
| 25 | Then the fire died down and Isambard 's more timorous followers came hurtling after him , and by sheer weight swept their opponents before them down the hillside . |
| 26 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 27 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 28 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 29 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 30 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |