Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 2 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 3 | Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go . |
| 4 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 5 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 6 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 7 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 8 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 9 | Go bring me back the drink and get me a Coke . |
| 10 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 11 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 16 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 17 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 18 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 19 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 20 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 21 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 22 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 23 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 26 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 27 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 28 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 29 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 30 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |