Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 2 | She wanted to snatch them up and hide them away from the coolly assessing scrutiny that seemed to lay her bare . |
| 3 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 4 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 5 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 6 | Poulenc rarely achieves or even tries to emulate his fellow countryman 's emotional intensity , although the more overtly entertaining and witty numbers can suddenly catch you out with a characteristically bitter-sweet volte-face . |
| 7 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 8 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 9 | You went and , you went and sat down and I seen yous fucking between the so I went and sat down . |
| 10 | So let's bring it down to a really personal level then . |
| 11 | Or if you will , I will come to the abbey gate , and bring you there by the least frequented way . ’ |
| 12 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 13 | In many cases , one may trace them back to a very ancient past , though often the present-day festivals — surviving in the face of what is euphemistically called ‘ progress ’ — retain only a vestige of their former meaning and complexity . |
| 14 | He admires in Horace ‘ the beauty , force and vehemence of Impression : which leads me on to a more rare and entertaining subject , not anywhere ( I think ) insisted on by others ’ . |
| 15 | Once again , at the very end of this , the longest video of the three , Julian sneaks in some additional MIDI-based information , leading you on to the rather more complex volume three . |
| 16 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 17 | When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ( ‘ What 's a frock ? ’ said my son . |
| 18 | None of this was his business , despite the fact that he had helped her out of a rather … tricky situation . |
| 19 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 20 | Jon Gittens ' over-hit back pass was dipping under the bar until quick-thinking Pears turned it over with a neatly executed back header . |
| 21 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 22 | Richard Cohen , who commissioned the book , said : ‘ I was very glad the judge threw it out at the very first stage . |
| 23 | Picasso , on the other hand , while he was undoubtedly fascinated by the formal and sculptured properties of tribal art , also admired it intuitively for a more fundamental reason ; for its ‘ reasonable ’ or conceptual quality . |
| 24 | and then feeding them out into the already perilous economy . |
| 25 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 26 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 27 | It was characteristic of the radical agitational movements in Derry to echo ideas which were already widely accepted , but to put them forward in a more aggressive , combative and militant style . |
| 28 | I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer ! |
| 29 | Try and get her back on an even keel . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll dump him somewhere up the Pan-Am . ’ |