Example sentences of "i [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 2 | Can you just sign that for me down the bottom there ? |
| 3 | Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’ |
| 4 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 5 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 6 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 7 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 8 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 9 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 10 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 11 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 13 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 14 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 15 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 16 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 17 | He shot me down the Spar shop at about ninety five miles an hour ! |
| 18 | Put me down the block ? |
| 19 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 20 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 21 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 22 | But the fact that , in the face of the overpowering evidence against the addiction , he had finally managed to give up all that time ago , combined with the fact that the pain was in the shoulder blade and not the chest , had contributed to putting me off the scent . |
| 23 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 24 | But PC Jobson , a policeman for seven years , said : ‘ This wo n't put me off the job . |
| 25 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 26 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 27 | Well can Clay take me up the bingo ? |
| 28 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 29 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 30 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |