Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 2 | An extension to movement this year was Rosemary Gould 's Reflexology therapy , carried on in her every spare minute , all her proceeds going to Medau . |
| 3 | We have negotiated a special deal with one of the world 's leading car hire organisations , that enables us to pass on to you the corporate rates and preferential service for car hire that they usually offer only to large companies . |
| 4 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 5 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 6 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 8 | It 's nice a wee taste of haggis now and again , not that you 'd want to eat it too often , it does tend to come back on you a wee bit , does n't it ? |
| 9 | computerisation of the system to come back to us every twelve months if no contact |
| 10 | He has strong , agile and indeed superb hands ; in the palm of his raised , right hand he holds out to you a miniature city , complete with dome , bridges and towers , the freedom of which he is offering you and which he has promised to protect . |
| 11 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 12 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 13 | Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it . |
| 14 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 15 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 16 | He came up to me a few moments ago and said ‘ Do you remember me ? ’ |
| 17 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 18 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 19 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 20 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |
| 21 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 22 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 23 | We 've had that 's that 's the observation I was gon na make , that 's er just so happens that that almost the amount that 's gon na be turned round to me the following week that that |
| 24 | He told the Prime Minister : ‘ We have handed over to you a united country . |
| 25 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 27 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 28 | The same thing happens with Pele 's tears ; they draw off behind them a long hair-like tail of glass , which may be a metre or more long . |
| 29 | His decrepitude — the historically stained clothes , that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin — set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition ; a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition . |
| 30 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |