Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame .
2 In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket .
3 I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch .
4 But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me .
5 Put it down a little bit we have an asymmetrical .
6 Oh I put it down the other end .
7 We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community .
8 I give him back the open paper .
9 When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well .
10 Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way
11 ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months .
12 I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette .
13 Talk to the children again to distract them , and , with your hands covering the cards , you turn them back the right way up .
14 Turn me up the right way , chief .
15 I also use this method on paper using egg yolk and water mixed with gouache ; I apply it over a painted area with a big brush , then blot it out with newspaper .
16 You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’
17 The scanning expert said : ‘ The easiest way to do that would be to enhance the quality of the original recording then just play it down an ordinary phone to a mobile phone in an area where the signal was strong .
18 Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time .
19 Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up .
20 Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’
21 take him out every single day !
22 I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy .
23 First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement .
24 I have them up the front bedroom window .
25 See you down the bottom Shel !
26 See you down the bottom Shel !
27 erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing
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