Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
2 | He wanted to pass us up the line of responsibility . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
5 | TAXES can be enough to drive you up the pole — and today we 're offering you the chance to ease the pain of paying . |
6 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
7 | 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 |
8 | 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 |
9 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
10 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
11 | ‘ I decided to put them off the scent . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
14 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
15 | Having done my best to put you off the Bar , I must add that the public interest strongly requires that the profession should continue to attract a flow of top quality recruits . |
16 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
17 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
18 | ‘ Almost anything , ’ said Roland , suddenly wanting to put him off the trail . |
19 | To put her off the scent and give her something else to think about , Rory had put Candy in charge of organising the children 's party . |
20 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
21 | Jonathan wanted us to put ours up the weekend and I thought well |
22 | Of course , it could be a clever charade orchestrated by Rene to put us off the track . |
23 | No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent . |
24 | His intention , when he starts his courses for coaches , is to warm them up the Medau way . |
25 | The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . |
26 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
27 | He said erm I shall ha I 'll have to send you up the hospital and you 'll have to have a you know |
28 | Generally , it will be best to run it up the corner of the kitchen which coincides with the corner of a room upstairs . |
29 | It started to suck me up the face . |
30 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |