Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 3 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 4 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 5 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 6 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 7 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |