Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 3 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 4 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |
| 5 | But I can understand you more now , 'cos I never thought you were the kind of fellow to lead anybody up the garden , then jump the railings . |
| 6 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
| 7 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 8 | So I hope to sort it out the Lenten appeal well |
| 9 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 10 | TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying . |
| 11 | Well there is some argument in that , but , you know they should be looking at alternatives somebody to drive you out the sites where they , the whole time they would take you there and bring you back . |
| 12 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
| 13 | I think it 's not very likely though is it , Christ Almighty we 're talking here about getting people on board to help you out the assessment are bit academic |
| 14 | But they have to in our garden because erm I know the first she was a the one we 've got and the first day me husband brought her he went up to fetch her out the kennel and she sort of saw this cat and it 's a |
| 15 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 21 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 22 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 23 | Having done my best to put you off the Bar , I must add that the public interest strongly requires that the profession should continue to attract a flow of top quality recruits . |
| 24 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
| 25 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 26 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
| 27 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
| 28 | To put her off the scent and give her something else to think about , Rory had put Candy in charge of organising the children 's party . |
| 29 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 30 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |