Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 4 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 5 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 6 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 9 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 10 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At last Cranston finished his further refreshment and , with Benedicta so close beside him his heart kept skipping for joy , Athelstan led them out into the great cleared area of Smithfield . |
| 13 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 14 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 16 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 19 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
| 20 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 21 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 22 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 25 | By promoting economic aspects and bringing them out into the open for everyone to see , we are contributing towards better informed decisions on the part of prescribers and policy makers alike . ’ |
| 26 | Linear earthworks were the means of manipulating , channelling and containing vast flows of terrestrial energy , drawing them out of the central plateau area of the chalk uplands and leading them , sometimes for miles , towards places where they were required to boost the existing subtle currents . |
| 27 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 28 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 29 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 30 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |