Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 2 | Then I like to get the washing in the machine , because I can leave it doing while I 'm down the shops . |
| 3 | I 'm down the Roman |
| 4 | Well we 'll try and get some erm we 'll look down , the next time I 'm down the library and look and see if they 've got any Enid Blyton because that might just be a way in . |
| 5 | The next minute I was up the tree with him . |
| 6 | Because I did n't have time , but er they started geography course work today and I was out the lesson |
| 7 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 8 | eight o'clock this morning , who the hell that was from , I do n't know , I was out the washing line I come flying in but I never got it , and nobody 's rung . |
| 9 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 10 | And I 'd say I was down the docks last night trying to rob the life-rafts , getting the first aid kits and trying to get the Omnopon and all that , and I nearly got caught , ca n't you help us out ? |
| 11 | I was down the market every day with my shopper , dear , for veg . |
| 12 | I was down the market with this other girl , and we saw her mum there . |
| 13 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 14 | You respect her privacy only when she 's in front of you , when she 's out the room its a quick glide full through all the drawers |
| 15 | She 's down the cliff . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think we 're up the creek . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 're up the dale a bit . |
| 19 | ‘ There were only three of us at first , and we were up the field all day , every day . |
| 20 | By the time he 'd got inside , I 'd taken Martin 's arm and we were down the alley outside the Pontefract Castle just as the doors opened . |
| 21 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , they 're up the creek . ’ |
| 23 | They were here initially , but they 've gone outside , they 're out the front . |
| 24 | But London experiences the " provinces " as if they were up the Amazon , up a mysterious not to say treacherous jungle path . |
| 25 | Fernyough hit eight 4s and three 6s , but once they were out the tail collapsed and Huyton totalled just 122 . |
| 26 | As soon as they were back the room filled up with people : Kānchho 's wife and family , Kalchu 's other brother , Māilo , and his son and daughter , the ā gri from the house next door . |
| 27 | ‘ They were down the shelter … or out of the way , for once . ’ |
| 28 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 29 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 30 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |