Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | ‘ And you know very well that once you are gone Miss Araminta will throw me out of the house . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 5 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 6 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 7 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 8 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 11 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 12 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 16 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 17 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 18 | And the boyfriend -when the mother kicks them out of the home — the boyfriend says , " Uh-oh , she 's out on the street now , and pregnant . " |
| 19 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 20 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 21 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 22 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 23 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 24 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 25 | And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ? |
| 26 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 27 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 28 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 29 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 30 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |