Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the core units are engaged you can pile in alongside them or form them up beside the core units to block enemy attacks from the sides . |
| 2 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 3 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 4 | As they joined the other dancers , he caught her hand in his and whirled her round into his arms , smiling at the astonishment on her features . |
| 5 | Because they 'll drown themself and bring you down with them . |
| 6 | He landed the plane himself and taxied it over to where President and Mrs Sadat were waiting with a guard of honour , a twenty-one-gun salute , a military band to play the national anthems of Iran and Egypt , and a red carpet . |
| 7 | The entire cast held their breath , as if watching a tightrope-walker stumble , and all let out a sigh of relief when he managed to right himself and make it through to the end of the speech . |
| 8 | Sir John , it appeared , had retained a sufficiently fond memory of his cousin , and was , besides , so moved by her plight that he went himself and fetched her back to Switham . |
| 9 | Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer this week scrapped plans to buy the stadium himself and lease it back to Hearts . |
| 10 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 11 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 12 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 13 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 14 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 15 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 16 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 17 | ‘ I forced his legs free , wrapped him round me and dragged him out through the flames . |
| 18 | I was drawn lower and lower ; a wall of flesh surrounded me and hemmed me in on every side , yet the pressure was not painful and the flesh easily gave way like soft india-rubber before my slightest movement . |
| 19 | She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse . |
| 20 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 21 | Did a year and a half there and then er promoted me and moved me back to Newark . |
| 22 | Signe stood behind me and helped me off with my coat . |
| 23 | The old gentleman who was the owner of the shop encouraged me and helped me along into the business . |
| 24 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 25 | Gust of warmth , beer and music rushing out to meet them and suck them in towards the bar . |
| 26 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 27 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 28 | The Black Prince led a cavalry charge against them and forced them back towards the River Miosson . |
| 29 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 30 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |