Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 2 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 3 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 4 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 5 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 6 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 7 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 9 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 10 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 11 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 12 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 13 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 14 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 15 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 16 | I mean you see them walking around particularly people who go for the big dogs , you see them walking around with a big thick necks , the tattoos , the er the boots and the jeans rolled up . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 18 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 19 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 20 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 21 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 22 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 23 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 24 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 25 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 26 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 27 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 28 | Like someone struggling out of a drugged sleep , Sarella flickered open her eyelids , blinking in confusion as if unsure as to where she was . |
| 29 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 30 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |