Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 2 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 3 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 4 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 5 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 6 | So have to hide it up in the wardrobe . |
| 7 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 8 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 9 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 10 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 11 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 12 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 13 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 14 | ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman . |
| 15 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 16 | The fierce row over threatened savage spending cuts intensified after Mr Major refused to rule anything out in the effort to claw back the Government 's £50 billion deficit . |
| 17 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 18 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 19 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 20 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 21 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 22 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 23 | Its only idea for schools is to put them back in the power of local authorities . |
| 24 | Both at home and at school they usually have to remain on the floor and Alice does n't always remember to put them back in the bag . |
| 25 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 26 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 27 | It 's not going to press you back in the seat on acceleration or break any speed records , but it 's far from sluggish — a 119mph top speed , in fact , and 0–62mph in 12.8 seconds . |
| 28 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 29 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 30 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |