Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
2 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
3 | Bind me up with granite , |
4 | Pick me up from work about eight o'clock . |
5 | I would imagine so , yeah , I think , then you pick them up in year three if you want to . |
6 | Their parents are the ones who send them off to school and say , just do your best . |
7 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
8 | Make sure that if you have children in the home that matches and lighters are placed well out of , place them out of reach . |
9 | I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front . |
10 | As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale . |
11 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
12 | I want you out by lunchtime . ’ |
13 | , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night . |
14 | Oh you see if they want her back to testing they 've got ta pay for the resource to er for us to , to , to recruit somebody else in the meantime . |
15 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
16 | We send her out for food every day |
17 | ‘ We 're going to take Sarah , grind her up and send her back as hamburger meat . ’ |
18 | For God 's sake go to bed and try and sleep it off before dinner . |
19 | He would say he 'd sent one off but it probably would n't arrive for months , you know what they do with holiday mail , fly it out to sea and drop it in . |
20 | If you build it in by design , like we build this in |
21 | And the completion of the Gascoigne transfer puts the company where I want it out of debt and trading strongly . ’ |
22 | Half of the wine and they top it up with water . |
23 | He answered : ‘ Jobs and leisure are all one thing are n't they — if you work you build yourself up for leisure . ’ |
24 | Imagine me up on stage , famous as Meryl Streep , getting my Oscar , saying ‘ Told you so ’ to old Dinwiddie and Mum and Dad . |
25 | Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a ceiling is badly cracked because people cover them up with ceiling paper or tiles . |
26 | Make sure there 's no little pin holes in the rusty tin someplace ; cover them up with mud . ’ |
27 | Show them off with sunshine |
28 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
29 | When he had them so placed , he spurred ahead and drew dear , and the archers cut them down like corn . |
30 | Yeah , because they put them through to crime prevention department , |