Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
2 | Leaning through their window to sting the breasts of the sunning chorus girls with ammo from their pea-shooters in the morning : in the evening beer all round and trying to coax them up an alley . |
3 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
4 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
5 | On the album , because of the studio , I had to pull it back a bit , but on the road in Europe and the States I can get up to these big , massive sounds . ’ |
6 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |
7 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
8 | But I can understand you more now , 'cos I never thought you were the kind of fellow to lead anybody up the garden , then jump the railings . |
9 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
10 | And they 've got to open her up every time |
11 | Just something for to pep her up a bit . |
12 | But as they went to pick her up an Embassy limo intervened … ’ |
13 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
14 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
15 | TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying . |
16 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
17 | I think it 's not very likely though is it , Christ Almighty we 're talking here about getting people on board to help you out the assessment are bit academic |
18 | But they have to in our garden because erm I know the first she was a the one we 've got and the first day me husband brought her he went up to fetch her out the kennel and she sort of saw this cat and it 's a |
19 | He would either need to spend ‘ a couple of hours ’ analysing where it was deficient or , preferably , he hoped that we might meet to discuss it over a meal . |
20 | These consist largely of exposition and practice with the occasional excursion into recreational mathematics ‘ to spice it up a bit ’ . |
21 | Just to spice it up a bit . |
22 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
23 | Oh aye , she 's gon na put like er erm , you know , trailing stuff over the fence , I suppose that 's what we 'll use as well to brighten it up a bit look at that , int that a waste ? |
24 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
25 | ‘ Next time why do n't you come down to see us , to hurry us along a bit ? |
26 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
27 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
28 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
29 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
30 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |