Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 4 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 5 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |