Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Coin-op cabinets do n't come cheap , especially snazzy ones like G-Loc — to keep you putting the pennies in and cover the arcadeowner 's costs , time limits were hellishly short . |
2 | Then your Mam used to make p pastry and put these beastlings in and make a beastling custard . |
3 | You heard Alan say that erm Joan has laid the guidelines down and made the job easier . |
4 | Why did nt the player lift his knees up and decapitate the donkey ? |
5 | I 'll get some of those bricks up and put the stone things down cos they look better . |
6 | I pull the pictures out and have a look at them . |
7 | just put another pipe in it knock a couple of bricks out and knock a pipe in and that 's |
8 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
9 | ‘ But you must put your feet up and let the younger ones get on with being busy for a change . |
10 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |
11 | ‘ I 'll go put the blacks up and light the lamp , ’ said Tom . |
12 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
13 | and now the er , they 're not paying back , and the houses have come down and so what people are doing , or some people that have bought these houses , they 're just giving the keys back and repossessing the house |
14 | Between these two extremes a mass of erratic talent clambered onto the boards , copied Johnny Rotten , delivered sixth-form poetry , threw the bottles back and accepted the spittle . |
15 | They were yes , well you could swing them grabs out and come the wire still |
16 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |
17 | Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again . |
18 | Take your skis off and have a breather . |
19 | ‘ Where did you learn anyway ? ’ he asked as they snapped their skis off and bumped the ice from them before going in . |
20 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
21 | Anyway , I removed his belt and pulled his trousers down and tied the legs in a knot , just to make sure . |
22 | The ‘ pay factor ’ was always set unrealistically low as an opening gambit by the Treasury to keep pay expectations down and to put a further squeeze on public services . |
23 | So anyway she had the er settee and brought a friend with her with a well I think it was one of these Range Rovers that you can seat erm , you know , about seven and he dropped the seats down and got the settee in , I do n't know how he managed it . |
24 | I have heard of the Hibs casuals though , they attacked a Manc baggy band called Paris Angels a couple of years back and left the singer with stitches . |
25 | After three days I moved the decorations around and removed the divider . |
26 | She is no longer simply a steady rallier and scampering retriever but can tie opponents up and utilise the openings created . |
27 | We put all the lights on and draw the curtains when we 're going to go out . |
28 | these be a bit user friendly , cor blimey , just cut it about all things down and put a chocolate strip in , plenty of room in the handle |
29 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
30 | Twenty years ago , it contained more than 400 species of haplochromines , small fish that kept the algae down and maintained the food chain . |