Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Shall I cut it ? ’ he said , and sliced eagerly in without waiting for an answer . |
| 32 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 33 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 34 | Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously . |
| 35 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 36 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 37 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 38 | ‘ Let us all down by looking like the poor relation ? ’ |
| 39 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 40 | Do you slow other people down by driving in the rush hour ? |
| 41 | She brought a window down by pressing on a button . |
| 42 | This was then immediately scrubbed onto a piece of scrap paper until the charge of paint began to run out ; at that point a thin scumble was quickly put down by stabbing with the brush tip onto the background colouring . |
| 43 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 44 | Lee must have got in by standing on a stone vase thing on the path . |
| 45 | Just closing a little bit on the vehicle in front , waiting for these hatchings to finish then gently accelerating through after checking in the mirror again . |
| 46 | Statement is shot through with feeling in the long , passionately detailed account of the mutiny . |
| 47 | These are itchy and painful and eventually crust over before disappearing after a further week or two . |
| 48 | For older children , there are more complex issues to think over before deciding on a course of action . |
| 49 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 50 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 51 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 52 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 53 | MIKE Small was branded ‘ stupid ’ by furious boss Billy Bonds after being sent off for swearing at a linesman at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 54 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 55 | Richmond coach , Kevin Boroevich , will have to eat some humble pie at training after being sent off for punching in the 21–15 win in a friendly against Fylde . |
| 56 | And on top of that McCracken was sent off for fighting in a Test match against Australia . |
| 57 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 58 | He did the 60-mile run in 2 hrs 55 mins — and was ticked off for going over the 20mph speed limit . |
| 59 | And why had n't the attendant come and told the foreign autocrat off for coming in the wrong way ? |
| 60 | He set off after arranging with the girls that Terry would be sent off to meet them , alone , and Frank prevented from accompanying him . |