Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 2 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 3 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 4 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 5 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 6 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 7 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 8 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 9 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 10 | He ordered Rose to take one of Effie 's legs and lift it on to her shoulders , and McAllister the other , to make it easier for him to help the insistent baby on its way . |
| 11 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 12 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
| 13 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 14 | The Sergeants would take us for training sessions and escort us over to our meals , but it was the Corporals who governed our lives . |
| 15 | There was a warning glitter of laughter in his eyes , and casually he dropped his cigar to the terrace and ground it out under his heel , then moved a fraction closer to her . |
| 16 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 17 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 18 | We are very sorry we have caused any inconvenience to club and are hoping E McCormick accepts this letter of apology on our behalf club and puts it down to a mis-understanding by his supporters . |
| 19 | He got the top off and a cup poured before lowering himself gingerly back into the driving seat and passing it over to Catherine . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps this will jog your memory ! ’ he warned , and with an economy of movement had taken her seat and pulled her down across his knees . |
| 21 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 22 | Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board . |
| 23 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 24 | To read Tolkien , Morris , Hodgson , Wells and Verne , to mention a few of the most imaginative of authors is to expand the confines of the mind and to jolt it out of its habitual furrow . |
| 25 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 26 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 27 | In three days time , after acclimatization training , the Russian lads were to take delivery of the aircraft and fly them back to Irkutsk by way of Yakutsk . |
| 28 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 29 | He twisted a bathrobe belt around her neck and forced her on to a bed before raping her twice in July 1991 . |
| 30 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |