Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 2 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Imperials both , they did not follow the local custom of farming him out to a neighbour . |
| 5 | Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court . |
| 6 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 7 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 8 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 9 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 10 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 11 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 12 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 13 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 14 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 15 | All the same , she realised she had to earn a living to support herself and Matt , and hit upon the idea of setting herself up as a hairdresser . |
| 16 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 17 | ‘ Your work is still creating interest , and the women of the Fabian Society are talking of following it up with a scientific examination of the social and economic condition of the women in the poorer parts of London , carrying on where Booth in his great survey of poverty left off . ’ |
| 18 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |
| 19 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 20 | But wha what about starting it out as a homework night for year seven and eight to start with ? |
| 21 | I used to fantasise about tying her up to a bed , together with all her giggling friends , like the woman in the film . ’ |
| 22 | Formatting to the rear of the Rallye , Legg established radio contact , and gently eased Anderson through a series of power adjustments and manoeuvres to make a practice approach at Cardiff before bringing him around for a successful , damage- and injury-free landing . |
| 23 | Against the odds John succeeded in drawing her out of a withdrawn reaction . |
| 24 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 25 | Slowly , she revolved it , before pulling it out with a plop . |
| 26 | Just before coming out , he 'd phoned the health centre and left a message on their answering machine as his first step in getting himself along to a psychiatrist . |
| 27 | The caravan already has a busy diary for the summer but anyone interested in having it along to a community event , or simply to visit a neighbourhood , should contact their local divisional police headquarters and ask for the crime prevention officer . |
| 28 | Instead , I suggested Jeanne and John tire Moby with a few chase and throw-fetch games in the garden before taking him out for a walk on an extendable lead . |
| 29 | It had so impregnated my string vest that when it had dried I almost succeeded in standing it up like a birdcage . |
| 30 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |