Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 once when they come up here I had to fetch the telly out the bedroom you know
2 There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come .
3 And when Dr Neil commanded her to give Effie chloroform again while he finally manoeuvred the little body out the relief she felt was almost overwhelming , enhanced by the sudden strange joy she felt at the sight of the tiny purple baby boy .
4 He was aware of Slater drawing in a breath and putting his head back the way he always did when he was rolling his eyes , but before Slater could say anything , Graham quickly nodded , switched his glass to the other hand , and took the woman 's small hand in his , shaking it formally .
5 We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel .
6 Athelstan asked hastily , and wished he could have bitten his tongue out the moment he spoke .
7 He waited until the coastguard officer had got well ahead , than followed him along the path back the way they had come .
8 Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room .
9 Well fling that rug out the hall it 'll be a start , bung it out on the landing for a start .
10 Half way down the companion he stopped , and it was as though the whole length of the hold moved towards him in a body .
11 Someone saved him from a blade he had not seen , and he killed the man who wielded it and began to fight his way back the way he had come , towards Siward , still calling orders .
12 Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job .
13 By 1995 , it reckons , founders will no longer have to fork out the $4.5m they do at present to keep the organisation going .
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