Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |
| 32 | It was a trick , leading him back into the same old treadmill . |
| 33 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 34 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 35 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 36 | Now fill me in on a few of these files . ’ |
| 37 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 38 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 39 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 40 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 41 | Second , the affection for medievalism is literary before it is architectural , and architects themselves invariably refer it back to the same lines from Milton 's Il Penseroso ( c.1631 ) : |
| 42 | We pass it here in a few minutes . |
| 43 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 44 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 45 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
| 46 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 47 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 48 | Lori dominated the table and Travis urged her on with a few well-chosen words . |
| 49 | I righted the wheelbarrow with effort , turned it round , and pulled it backwards up the same yard , but no further . |
| 50 | If you leave the vehicle , the heat from the engine soaks into the carb and thaws it out for a few more miles . |
| 51 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 53 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 54 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
| 55 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 56 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 57 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 58 | Likewise , sir ’ ( to the Manager ) ‘ I shall be grateful if you can help in one or two practical ways — I 'll tell you how in a few minutes . |
| 59 | Guy was always very close to his older sister , and after his accident she treated him consistently in the same way as she had before , which helped him to regain his normal social skills very quickly . |
| 60 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |