Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you . |
| 2 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 3 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 4 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 5 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 6 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 7 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 8 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 9 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |
| 10 | COLWYN BAY 'S BJ Welsh Knockout Cup campaign ended in disaster when unfancied Pontblyddyn sent them crashing out with a seven-wicket blasting . |
| 11 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 12 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 13 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 14 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 15 | They wanted me to stand by as a consultant . |
| 16 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 17 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 18 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 19 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 20 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 21 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 22 | No I mean even with a hand saw , you know , I 've done it before |
| 23 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 24 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 25 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 26 | I need my to go up in a minute . |
| 27 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 28 | I lay there in a sort of wonderment , listening to a rich world of sound about me . |
| 29 | The scene faded and I lay there in a limbo land between that world and this . |
| 30 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |