Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 3 | ‘ And you know very well that once you are gone Miss Araminta will throw me out of the house . ’ |
| 4 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 5 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 6 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 7 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 8 | ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’ |
| 9 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 10 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 11 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 12 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 13 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 14 | ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’ |
| 15 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 16 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
| 17 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
| 19 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 20 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 21 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 22 | If a group is coming to entertain residents , then bring them in after an afternoon nap . |
| 23 | Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar . |
| 24 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 25 | Those new-age prats think they can flush me out with a bit of colonic irrigation . |
| 26 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 27 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 28 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
| 29 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 30 | I bang on them , drag them all over the place , throw them around ! ’ |