Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 32 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 33 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 34 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 35 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 36 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 37 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 38 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 41 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 42 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 43 | So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 46 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 47 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 50 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |
| 51 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 52 | But it can learn to comprehend a series of events by bringing them together into a cohesive , learned pattern to form a language . |
| 53 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 58 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |