Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 2 | Well usually erm modern telephones have got a switch on the back and you can switch them to pulse or tone |
| 3 | It was better to stop every day 's travel early so as to have good energy for raising a tent , digging an igloo , building a platform up a tree . |
| 4 | There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come . |
| 5 | Go and get a loaf out the freezer |
| 6 | The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared . |
| 7 | She 'd erm was erm getting a pie out the oven and cos some of the juice went on the floor , she wiped it up thinking she 'd wiped it up properly and she did n't , she slipped , she 's broken a couple of bones in her foot . |
| 8 | Carole ( 3.11 ) was manoeuvring a pram up a steep slope . |
| 9 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 10 | and it was said he could sniff a copper out a mile away . |
| 11 | Having a drink out the bottom . |
| 12 | Recently I 've made three dogs out of wood and cement , chasing a deer up a slope in Grizedale . |
| 13 | We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast . |
| 14 | The Youngs took a turn around the green before returning home . |
| 15 | The big man arose from the bed and took a turn around the caravan , humming to himself . |
| 16 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 17 | We went across a large lake and then took a hike up a trail to see some old steam engines and lots of parts strewn about ; the trains were once used to transport the logs . |
| 18 | to have a disco up a regular part of the pub . |
| 19 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 20 | and said can I have some money for me tonight , I said well I was gon na get a cheque out the Abbey National , he said oh no he said work day to day and I thought oh |
| 21 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 22 | Look in particular at putting a ball up a bank if the pin is positioned close to the edge of the green . |
| 23 | He flicked a switch on a console and said . |
| 24 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 25 | Such activities may spontaneously develop ideas of the degree of push needed to get a car up a slope with cries of , ‘ Push harder — that was too gentle ! ’ |
| 26 | No it 's Tracy was telling David , and David said David was saying same thing , David wants to well like was saying this morning to Neil , we 'll have to get a meeting up a go . |
| 27 | And you probably would not choose to spend a fortnight up the Amazon with either . |
| 28 | I 've ridden a bike up a oneway street once , but I did n't get caught |
| 29 | At the risk of being regarded as a gardening Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes , it is a good idea to have a magnifying glass in your pocket when you take a turn around the roses . |
| 30 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |