Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 2 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 3 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 4 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 5 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 6 | And all I say in response is , please get up , write on petitions , send them in to M Ps , send them in to the unions . |
| 7 | The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows . |
| 8 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 9 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 10 | But he tricked them out of the deeds , then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley . |
| 11 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 12 | He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses . |
| 13 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 14 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 15 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 16 | Juliet helped him back under the bedclothes . |
| 17 | Why do n't you come up here for a week or two and I 'll show you how to knit a string bag to put hubby in then you can hang him up with the onions . |
| 18 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 19 | Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight . |
| 20 | And and having completed that , you send it back to the personnel group at county hall . |
| 21 | it 's all mass produced and they might as well not sell it to you , and send it back to the manufacturers and get a full discount . |
| 22 | Well last year we moved it out into the gardens . |
| 23 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 24 | Occasionally the Dwarfs will try to drive the Goblins out , or the Goblins will find some tunnel which leads them into the Dwarf tunnels , and the two races battle it out beneath the mountains . |
| 25 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 26 | About to lead them back towards the stables , he lowered his voice and said to Luke , ‘ Did you get it ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Cut them out of the frames himself ; no , I 'm sure you 're right . |
| 28 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
| 29 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 30 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |