Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 2 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 3 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 4 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 5 | Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip . |
| 6 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 7 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 8 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
| 9 | He held on to the machine by the handlebars as he turned off the road and started to push it up the steeper incline of the track . |
| 10 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |