Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 5 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 7 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 12 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 13 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 14 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 15 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And then he led them out of the small room . |
| 19 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 20 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 22 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 23 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 28 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |