Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 4 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 5 | Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … . |
| 6 | ‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling . |
| 7 | Go bring me back the drink and get me a Coke . |
| 8 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 9 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 13 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 14 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 15 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 16 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 17 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 18 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 19 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 20 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 26 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 27 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 28 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 29 | And I do n't want to change you , I want you exactly the way you are . ’ |
| 30 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |