Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 2 | Opinion polls have given the Communists up to 15 per cent in the event of genuinely free elections . |
| 3 | The last meeting was given the figures up to 15 October 1991 . |
| 4 | Does he agree that that improvement has occurred because we — the Government — have given the unions back to their members ? |
| 5 | When I , when I come to practice management then , when I 've given the books out , I 'll probably them out to do the exam . |
| 6 | The new chart has been given the thumbs up by Food Records Andy Ross , whose acts ( including Blur and Jesus Jones ) are exempt from the current chart . |
| 7 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 8 | East Kilbride celebrates as tyre plant proposal given the thumbs down . |
| 9 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | Have you heated the beans up ? |
| 11 | ‘ I can only hope all this has shaken the kinks out of my system . ’ |
| 12 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 13 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 14 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 15 | Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's ripped the guts out of the radio . ’ |
| 17 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 18 | I have stripped the tops off and cleaned and re-oiled them . |
| 19 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 20 | That 's wound the buggers up . |
| 21 | So really I need to firm up with them , I 've dropped the seeds in to firm up the process and they 're going to work through that with the kids at the same time talking about what a record of achievement is , showing them what goes inside it , the importance of it etcetera . |
| 22 | Despite the economic gloom , City types are feeling quite skittish now that the former men-only Marks & Sparks in London 's Leadenhall Street has let the ladies in . |
| 23 | The woman columnist at the Star argued that the judge as a man had no real understanding of what the girls had suffered and had unjustifiably let the youths off lightly with seven-year and three-year prison sentences . |
| 24 | While the general presumption was that its negligence had let the terrorists through , the intelligence indications were that its security arrangements — good , bad or indifferent — had been bypassed . |
| 25 | " When I 've let the dogs out , " he fussed away . |
| 26 | You 'd spend one hour boning all his big bones they he 'd already took the joints off and your job was to bone it right to the bone , which he sold separately , and today you would call minced beef . |
| 27 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 28 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 29 | No , you can have a read of it if you like , but I 'll scrunched the others up there , stuff them in there , stuff |
| 30 | I 've turned the taps on to refill it and the pressure taps they 're in there till we fill the I was going round , finding trickle here I was going round bleeding all the radiators , the whole system had to be drained down ! |