Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 2 | Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go . |
| 3 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 4 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 5 | The Half House met them round a corner , and Mary Rose exclaimed . |
| 6 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 7 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 8 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 9 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 10 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 11 | Go bring me back the drink and get me a Coke . |
| 12 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 13 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 14 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 15 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 16 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 17 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 18 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 19 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
| 20 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 21 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 24 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 25 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 26 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 27 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 28 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 29 | Leaning through their window to sting the breasts of the sunning chorus girls with ammo from their pea-shooters in the morning : in the evening beer all round and trying to coax them up an alley . |
| 30 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |