Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 3 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 4 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 5 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 6 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 8 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 9 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 11 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 12 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 13 | If you 're a bit large on the hips , top them off with a loose T-shirt . |
| 14 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 15 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 17 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |
| 18 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 19 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 20 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 21 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 22 | Adam was so extreme ; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days . |
| 23 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 24 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 25 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 26 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 27 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 28 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 29 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 30 | It lay around the office for a day or two , until someone had time to open it and send it back with a brief note , giving the time and circumstances of Elsie 's death . |