Example sentences of "thing [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There are one or two things on at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 4 | That one 's Keith 's and that one 's now listen carefully cos before we start we need to talk about something , just put your things down on the table alright ? |
| 5 | It appeared to be a game — of finding things down in the sewer . |
| 6 | How are things down in the bowels of the archive ? ’ |
| 7 | Incidentally , there 's another hotkey that disables this for 10 seconds , long enough for you to shut things down before the UPS leaps into action . |
| 8 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |
| 9 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I need to take some things over to the hospital for Emma , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ She had to take some things over to the hospital for Adam . ’ |
| 12 | But when we had these things through for the chassis and the cleaning of the caravan , it was all optional . |
| 13 | I like to see things through to the finish — and to see them through successfully . ’ |
| 14 | It appears that Geordie , the Newcastle chap who cheered things up during the trip to the beach last week , by being the first to run naked into the sea , was badly wounded when his jeep ran over a mine and the driver was killed . |
| 15 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 16 | Usually , these are insignificant , and can often speed things up for the customer as well . |
| 17 | Owen could not tell whether this actually was the demonstration , conveniently moved in view of the circumstances , or whether Osman meant to whip things up to the point when the crowd would storm the barricade . |
| 18 | In other words Jansons encourages the listener to join in all the fun without ever spoiling it by camping things up along the way . |
| 19 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 20 | Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’ |
| 21 | In the hotel , once again we 've got ta get all these , we 've got ta things into a room which is obvious , but you 've got ta get things up through the lift and you 've got this bottleneck . |
| 22 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 23 | I 'm quite good at mixing things up in the pan and throwing in whatever 's available . |
| 24 | What was worst for Jackie , in a way , was the follow-up : the melancholy task faced by his wife Helen as she and Courage 's wife Sally had to pack up Piers 's things back at the Bouwes Palace . |
| 25 | ‘ Untidy pig , ’ Alice said , and began to throw things back into the drawer . |
| 26 | When the meal was over , they helped Lizzie to clear away , taking the picnic things back into the house , and then began sorting out Sara 's luggage . |
| 27 | In short , they wanted to " set all things back upon the foot they were at his coming to the crown " . |
| 28 | To confer the status of value upon excess and extremism is to bring these things back within the pale of decency . |
| 29 | You help us take the things out to the kitchen . |
| 30 | I took her things out to the Toyota . |