Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position . |
| 2 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 3 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 4 | Just push it up the bum . |
| 5 | Well you just got it out the cupboard did n't you ? |
| 6 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 7 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 8 | we 'll just send them back the problem and send fully stamped |
| 9 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 10 | The signs are not always immediately apparent or indicative , and can easily lead us up the garden path ; we have to learn to recognize the various spots and blemishes , however small . |
| 11 | just screw it down the |
| 12 | They start arguing and everything and then he just chucks her out the win |
| 13 | I just saw you out the window ! |
| 14 | A change in our fortunes at Kenilworth Road will soon get us up the table . ’ |
| 15 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 16 | He gave it a stab which only just carried it up the slope and onto the edge of the green . |
| 17 | Not like fellers smoking a cigarette : just pull it out the packet , stick it in their mouth , do n't think about what they 're doing . |
| 18 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |
| 19 | Kate had to pull the girl from the car and practically drag her up the garden path to the house . |
| 20 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 21 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 22 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 23 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 24 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 25 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 26 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 27 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 28 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 30 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |