Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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1 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
2 | And it seems that if I go Steve , right , bring me up a dozen sweets and I have n't selled one of them well that would be |
3 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
4 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
5 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
6 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
7 | ‘ Yes , I 'll have a look at her while I 'm here , cheer her up a bit . ’ |
8 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
9 | Butter him up a bit . |
10 | knock her about a bit , then steal her seed . |
11 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
12 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
13 | Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame . |
14 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
15 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
16 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
17 | I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch . |
18 | Put them up a what ? |
19 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
20 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
21 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
22 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
23 | ‘ I must say the old trousers he wears let him down a little — but at the wedding he 'll wear his best suit . |
24 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
25 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |
26 | ‘ Perhaps I put it on a bit , but that 's a bad house . ’ |
27 | So first of all I put it on a little er I 've got a rather nasty little table that looks as though it ought to have a chamber pot underneath it you remember that nasty little wooden bedside table that I hate |
28 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
29 | Er well I left the stuffing cos I , I did n't think I 'd left it in long enough , I put it in a bit late and I thought we 'd leave the stuffing . |
30 | Put it down a little bit we have an asymmetrical . |